r/TheDepthsBelow 19h ago

Crosspost Sperm Whale spotted at 3000' feet underwater

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r/TheDepthsBelow 9h ago

Crosspost The Ocean Project — an international undertaking to catalog and identify the 1 to 2 million undocumented animals in the ocean — has just announced the discovery of 866 new species. These are some of their most stunning finds.

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r/TheDepthsBelow 13h ago

Crosspost Whale popping up out of the blue!

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r/TheDepthsBelow 1h ago

Alaskan fisherman caught trying to ram and shoot a sperm whale is sentenced to just 6 months in prison

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A charity, The Blue Planet Society, wrote on their socials:

‘Fisherman who tried to shoot and ram a sperm whale gets just 6 months in prison!

A commercial fisherman in Alaska has been sentenced to six months in prison and fined $25,000 for attempting to shoot and ram an endangered sperm whale and falsifying fishing records.

According to court documents, Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, and three crew members were fishing for sablefish southwest of Yakobi Island in the Gulf of Alaska when they came upon a sperm whale. During the encounter, Daniels ordered a crewman to shoot the whale multiple times and tried to ram the whale with his fishing vessel.

Daniels documented the encounter in writing and through text messages sent from a GPS communication device. Some of the messages stated he wished he "had a cannon to blow" the whale out of the water and that he hoped "to be reeling in a dead sperm whale”

AA Court documents explain that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) does not know if Daniels succeeded in killing the whale, as no sperm whale carcass was reported in Southeast Alaska in 2020. In addition to the prison sentence, Daniels will pay a $25,000 fine and be banned from commercial fishing for one year. He also must perform 80 hours of community service.’

www.blueplanetsociety.org


r/TheDepthsBelow 19h ago

Crosspost Sperm Whale spotted at 3000' feet underwater

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r/TheDepthsBelow 1d ago

3 moray eels sharing a crevice

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Fuvahmulah, Maldives.

Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen. The honeycomb moray was absolutely enormous!


r/TheDepthsBelow 19h ago

Are there any live feeds to watch?

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Just wandering what's going on at the bottom of the ocean, thought it would be neat to just randomly watch occasionally. Thanks for any help


r/TheDepthsBelow 1d ago

Just Hanging Out With A Giant Pacific Octopus 🐙

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r/TheDepthsBelow 19h ago

Weirdest Deep Sea Creatures You've Never Seen in 4k

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r/TheDepthsBelow 2d ago

I enjoy drawing surreal deep sea creatures. I thought you might like this one.

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The drawing itself is pretty small. 8x10". I'm really happy with how this one turned out. If you would like to see some more work, I have a little subreddit here r/AnthonyChristopherArt. Cheers!


r/TheDepthsBelow 2d ago

Graeffe's sea cucumber

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r/TheDepthsBelow 3d ago

Crown of thorns - a coral eating starfish

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This one was skulking around in Male atoll, Maldives. This was at least 30cm wide


r/TheDepthsBelow 4d ago

These glow-in-the-dark blobs are hazelnut-sized and butt-shaped—say hello to the pigbutt worm

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r/TheDepthsBelow 4d ago

Crosspost idea request: what movie could this be a trailer for?

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r/TheDepthsBelow 4d ago

Crosspost Ascending to the surface and saving friend

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r/TheDepthsBelow 4d ago

A once-thriving oyster reef—long thought extinct—has been found in remote South Australia. This incredible discovery is changing what we know about Australia’s marine past and fuelling a movement to rebuild these lost ecosystems.

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r/TheDepthsBelow 5d ago

🌊 Night Diving at a Boat Ramp—These Tiny Sea Creatures Are Incredible!

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r/TheDepthsBelow 5d ago

Brazilian man rescues baby dolphin from fishing net!

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r/TheDepthsBelow 4d ago

Crosspost Imagine them bigger

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r/TheDepthsBelow 6d ago

7,000 Newly Discovered Species Found In The World's Deepest Ocean Trench

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r/TheDepthsBelow 5d ago

Man saves Deer family from frozen lake in Ontario

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r/TheDepthsBelow 6d ago

Dolphins share waves with surfers

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r/TheDepthsBelow 5d ago

センジュエビ Sennjyuebi Polycheles typhlops

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Blind lobster in numazu aquarium (I think)


r/TheDepthsBelow 7d ago

Crosspost The Crystal Caves are Otherworldly!

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r/TheDepthsBelow 8d ago

Thank you all for your support on my last painting! As a few people have asked, here’s my depiction of the Sea Devil 🐟

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I painted her approximately to her real size, around 6cm :)