H4 THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 



the sedentary abyssal animals, such as the Glass- 

 Rope-Sponge, are fixed by long stalks, and 

 why many of the wandering abyssal animals, 

 such as crabs and sea-spiders, have very lanky 

 legs, for walking delicately on the treacherous 

 surface. 



MONOTONY 



The Deep Sea must be the most monotonous 

 place in the world. There is no scenery, but 

 a succession of dreary undulations like those of 

 sand-dunes. Only here and there are there 

 ridges like water-sheds or volcanic cones rising 

 to the surface, perhaps to form the foundations 

 of sunlit coral islands. Moreover, everything 

 is so continuous eternal winter, eternal night, 

 eternal silence. What an eerie picture this 

 a deep, dark, cold, calm, silent, monotonous 

 world. 



NO DEPTH-LIMIT TO LIFE 



What of the life of the great deeps ? The 

 biggest fact is that there is no "deep" too 

 deep for life. There are more animals at the 

 more moderate depths ; there are more animals 



