The exhibition
Five rooms follow the water column from the surface to the seabed. Each room is darker than the last. A visit takes about an hour.
Isobaths around Bermuda
An isobath is a line joining points of equal depth. These are drawn every 500 metres from GEBCO data.
Bathymetry: GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group 2026(2026). The GEBCO_2026 Grid - a continuous terrain model for oceans and land at 15 arc-second intervals. NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC. doi:10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa. Not for navigation.
Room 1
Sunlight
The surface and the first 200 metres. Watch red fade from the walls as you walk down.
Room 2
Twilight
Light fades to a dim blue. See how animals here hide, glow and travel up at night.
Room 3
Midnight
A dark room lit only by animal light, with preserved specimens from the deep.
Room 4
The seabed
Life on the abyssal plain, where the sea pig walks on its tube feet.
Room 5
The lab
Our researchers work behind a glass wall. Watch them sort samples from the slope off Bermuda.
Our research
We study light in the deep water off Bermuda: how much sunlight reaches each depth, and which animals make their own.
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