
Day 1: Snow
Wow, what a whale fall! 🤩 @mbari-blog
Today’s art prompt was inspired by marine snow—the slow, steady shower of organic material that rains down to the deep sea from the surface. While most of the food that reaches the deep sea arrives as marine snow particles, a single whale carcass can provide as much organic material as several thousand years’ worth of marine snow when it sinks to the seafloor!
A whale fall, like this one beautifully illustrated by @itsjustfish, brings a colossal feast that a diverse community of deep-sea creatures can enjoy for several decades.
