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Adaptations of Deep Sea Fish Find out how deep sea fish are adapted to live in one of the world’s least hospitable environments. Deep sea fish are pretty bizarre looking, perhaps even scary to the human eye. Living in total darkness, under crushing pressures, and in frigid temperatures – these fish are built to survive in one of the world’s less friendly environments. Although the ocean itself is quite deep with different creatures living among its different layers – certain adaptations are found again and again beneath the epipelagic zone. Deep Sea Fish Live Without Light The epipelagic layer is the top most layer of the ocean and extends about 200 meters down. Light can’t penetrate the ocean much farther than this which means the bottom 10,000 meters of the sea exist in total darkness. That is, except for the light created by deep sea creatures themselves. Some deep sea animals are able to create light through a chemical reaction called bioluminescence. Since some light does exist du...