While diving with ROVs 4,900 meters deep on the abyssal plain in Wake Island EEZ, we came across a number of interesting #deepseafish. First is a #FacelessCuskEel (Typhlonus nasus) that eerily floats in front of our cameras before giving chase. These abyssal fish are famous for lacking visible eyes in their bulbous head.

There’s something about the blue of the ocean that words can never fully explain. 🌊💙 Sometimes it’s soft and almost transparent, reflecting the morning sky. Sometimes it turns deep and endless, like a secret hiding beneath the waves. Every shade carries a different feeling — calmness, freedom, mystery, and a little bit of nostalgia. The ocean doesn’t have just one blue. It has thousands of them, changing with the sunlight, the depth, the clouds, and the hour of the day. Maybe that’s why we nev