Table of Contents:
- The exploration of the deep / Cindy Lee Van Dover
- Midwater life : survival in a harsh environment / George I. Matsumoto
- A Chinese shadow theater
- The nocturnal ballet of deep-sea creatures / Marsh Youngbluth
- Living lights in the sea / Edith Widder
- Evolution caught red-handed
- Gelatinous but voracious predators / Laurence Madin
- From myth to reality : monsters of the deep / Clyde Roper
- Are deep-sea animals living fossils? / Robert C. Vrijenhoek
- The vampire squid from hell
- The deep seafloor : a desert devoid of life? / Craig M. Young
- The polar depths / Michael Klages
- The Monterey Canyon / Gary Greene
- Sharks of the dark
- Seamounts : Galápagos of the deep / J. Anthony Koslow
- Deepwater coral reefs : out of sight, out of mind
- Hydrothermal vents / Daniel Desbruyères
- Gas promotes mass : methane seeps / Lisa Levin
- A whale's end is the beginning of life at the deep seafloor / Craig R. Smith
- Deep trenches : the ultimate abysses / Kantaro Fujioka and Dhugal Lindsay.