scientificillustration:

Seeblase - Physalia pelagica now called Physalia physalis

thebitchoftheliving:

I wish I knew the source!

One of England’s first female deep sea divers, c. 1908

(Source: geneabailey.wordpress.com)

mudwerks:

(via stuff from the park: Watch the Sawfish)

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

This postage stamp commemorates William Beebe’s 1934 descent in the bathysphere, and pictures deep sea fish that he reported seeing. Since Beebe was unable to collect specimens, the existence of some of these fish remains controversial.

Engraving by Henri Theophile Hildibrand for Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.