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| | WWF - Ocean ecology: the dim and dark depths |
 | | The pressure is enormous, up to 1,000 times that on the surface. |
 | | These dark waters include the bathypelagic (1,000-4,000m), abyssopelagic (4,000m to the ocean floor) and hadopelagic (water in ocean trenches) zones. |
 | | Despite the fact that 60% of our planet is covered by water over 1,600m deep, we know very little about pelagic and other deep-sea life. |
| www.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/marine/blue_planet/open_ocean/deep_waters/index.cfm (581 words) |
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