The water
Sun-shafted shallows, still lit from above — the one zone that needs nothing from your own lamps. Kelp stalks and coral heads sit under real light shafts, and crystal fields spread wide across the sand.
Conditions
Depth range0–600 m
MapThe Open Column
Hazards
No modelled hazard here yet. The Reef's job is teaching you to read the water before any of it can hurt you.
What lives here
16 catalogued species call this zone home:
Glassfin Minnow
CoastalTidepool Knuckle Crab
CoastalSunfleck Ray
CoastalShy Parrot-Wrasse
CoastalRibbon Garden Eel
CoastalTide-Hour Squid
CoastalPassing Mantle Ray
AbyssalNestled Clingfish
CoastalNot yet in the waterTidewash Bell
CoastalFlickerscale Damsel
CoastalShoalback Crab
CoastalVeiled Sand Ray
CoastalThreadneedle Eel
CoastalDriftshard Squid
CoastalLow-Tide Drifter
CoastalGutterwedge Blenny
Coastal