The Continental Shelf to the Abyssal Plain: The Bottom Dwellers. The sea creatures here are small with big eyes and even larger mouths with extraordinarily sharp teeth Photographer David Shale travelled with BBC Blue Planet and other expeditions to photograph these deep sea creatures, while photographers Solvin Zankl, Alexander Semenov and others brought their own dedication to expeditions in the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Arctic oceans. In this perpetual night, survival is a matter of being able to understand and process light signals, some in different colours, some flashing, some faint – the most sophisticated use of bioluminescence on Earth. Part 2: Middle to Deep Dark Waters: Masters of the Language of Light. In images taken by dedicated blackwater photographers Linda Ianniello and Susan Mears, these mostly larval creatures haunt the near-surface waters making vertical migrations every night to feed. Part 1: Surface Waters of the Ocean at Night: The Blackwater Vertical Migrators. Informative captions accompany the 90 gorgeous photographs of otherworldly creatures. Each part has representatives from the various marine animal classes (e.g., fish, crustaceans, jellyfish and siphonophores, squids, tunicates and other invertebrates). The book organizes the creatures into three parts based on where they live in the ocean. From the author of Creatures of the Deep, Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises and other books about the ocean and the animals that live there, comes a new title about some of the most unusual marine life forms. Marine researchers are discovering new ocean creatures every day, especially at its deepest depths. Our role is primarily as viewers, marvelling at their strangeness and beauty.” - The Canadian Field-Naturalist 134:398 These alien deep sea creatures are presented mostly on their own, against black backdrops, in three sections: The Blackwater Vertical Migrators, Masters of the Language of Light, and The Bottom Dwellers. Hoyt provides the expert commentary, half-a-dozen photographers the wonderful photos. Good reviews in BBC Wildlife, Hakai and The Canadian Field-Naturalist.Įrich Hoyt “continues to open up through photography new fields of experience for armchair observers….Almost every page contain a large view of some usually tiny, exotic, never-seen before (by most of us, I mean) creature that is given a name-when known-and brief description. Hardcover, 112 pages, glossary, index, 25.4cm x 25.4cm (10 inches square). 2020 in UK/ US/ Canada/ Europe/ Australia/ NZ Welcome to this latest member of the “Creatures” family of books by Erich Hoyt - PUBLISHED Nov.
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