Midnight Zone — 1,300–2,100 m

The water

Fully dark. Bone fields, wreck debris and the slow rust-glow of hydrothermal chimneys are all that mark the floor, and whatever your hull throws is the only light in the water — the sun never reaches this deep.

Conditions

Depth range1,300–2,100 m

MapThe Open Column

Hazards

No hull damage modelled here, but total darkness itself is the hazard: nothing resolves outside your own lamp radius, cover included.

What lives here

20 catalogued species call this zone home: