Victor Vescovo

We saw bioluminescence all the time.

In fact, it's the most common form of communication on planet earth.

What do you mean by that?

There are more organisms in the ocean than on land.

And the primary form of communication for animals in the sea is light.

I didn't know that.

It's not whales talking to each other with sonar, although they do that, but most life are small creatures and they're bioluminescent.

So at about 2,000 to 3,000 meters, when you start getting really dark, but before you get into like ultimate dark,

Below 6,000 meters, there's no photons.

I mean, there's like no light.

It's not possible to see light below 6,000 meters because all the photons are absorbed.

Now, we bring lights with us on the submarine, but if you turn all the lights off on the submarine and you look out of the portal, you're seeing the blackest black that your mind can register.

It was actually quite eerie.

You know, remember Nietzsche, you know, be careful when you look into the abyss, it's looking back into you too.

But for bioluminescence at about two or 3000 meters, I would turn all the lights off and then I would turn all of them on at once and then turn them off again.

like I was blinking.

And sure enough, not all the time, but often I'd start seeing flashes of light all throughout the ocean, like lightning away from the submarine, like they're talking back.

It was like I was screaming in the ocean, hey, and they're all going, what?

I have no idea what we were saying to each other.

Wow.