09.Gallery of Lights

Enchantment of the Oceans

1st Floor

Gallery of Lights

While certain species use light they produce to communicate, others use it to camouflage, hunt, escape, defend themselves…

At a depth of 150 metres, 99% of the sunlight is absorbed. Beyond 1000 metres, total darkness reigns.

The decomposition of light reveals new appearances as the depths pass, when fluorescence metamorphoses species and bioluminescence provides certain animals with formidable weapons.

We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the depth of our oceans. Today, 95% of the abyssal zone remain unexplored.

Fluorescence

Several marine species have the ability, when illuminated with certain radiations, to emit different radiations.

Jewel Anemone

Corynactis viridis

Artichoke Coral

Scolymia sp.

Tube Anemone

Cérianthus membranaceus

9 places of discovery

01.

ATLANTIC OCEAN

02.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

03.

Open sea and jellyfish

04.

CARIBBEAN SEA

05.

INDO-PACIFIC REGION

06.

Sharks

07.

MARINE TURTLES

08.

TROPICAL FOREST

10.

CHILDREN'S VOYAGE

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