The Deep Sea is one of those Neal.fun experiences that starts simple and then completely sucks you in. You just scroll down. That’s it. But somehow you end up spending way longer than expected watching the ocean get darker and the creatures get weirder.
It starts at the surface with familiar stuff like clown fish, salmon, and manatees. Pretty normal. Then you keep scrolling and things start to change. Killer whales show up around 100 meters. Emperor penguins dive down to 530 meters, which is deeper than you’d expect for a bird. By the time you hit the Midnight Zone at around 1,000 meters, sunlight is completely gone and creatures start making their own light through bioluminescence. That’s when it gets really interesting.
The deeper you go, the stranger things get. You’ll see anglerfish, blobfish, giant squid, and animals that look like they belong in a sci-fi movie. There’s a Giant Isopod that once went five years without eating. The Goblin Shark is basically a living fossil that’s been around for 125 million years. Each creature appears at the depth where it actually lives, which makes the whole thing feel educational without being boring.
It’s not just sea life either. The Titanic shows up at 3,800 meters. The USS Johnston, the deepest shipwreck ever found, sits at 6,241 meters. There are notes about how only three people have ever reached certain depths. Little details like that hit harder than you’d expect when you’re scrolling through total darkness.
The whole thing goes all the way down to the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean. By the time you get there, you’ve scrolled through thousands of meters and seen just how much of the ocean we still barely understand.
How To Use The Deep Sea
There’s really nothing to explain. You open the page and scroll down. That’s the whole interaction. As you scroll, new creatures and facts appear at their actual ocean depths. It’s smooth, simple, and weirdly relaxing.
Each animal comes with a short description so you learn something without having to read a wall of text. You can go slow and take everything in or scroll fast just to see how deep it goes. There’s no right way to do it.
There’s no timer, no score, and no goal other than curiosity. You can stop whenever you want or keep going until you hit the bottom. It’s the kind of thing you check out once and then end up showing to someone else because it’s just that cool.