Keep moving
Some sharks have to keep swimming to breathe, pushing water over their gills as they go. Forward is the only direction they know.
Est. somewhere in the open water
Sharp ideas
from the deep.
JoomShark is a quiet corner of the internet: calm water, clean lines and the occasional fin. Nothing to sell, nothing to sign up for — just a nice place to scroll down for a while.
Three things sharks are good at
Older than trees.
Calmer than you'd think.
Sense the quiet
Tiny pores on a shark's snout pick up the faint electric fields of living things. They notice what everyone else misses.
Stay for ages
Sharks were cruising the oceans long before the first trees grew on land, and the Greenland shark can live for centuries.
Scroll down slowly
A trip to the bottom.
The page gets darker as you go — just like the ocean.
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0 – 200 m
Sunlight zone
Warm, bright and busy. Almost all the life you can picture lives up here, where sunlight still reaches.
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200 – 1,000 m
Twilight zone
Light fades to a blue haze. Many creatures here make their own glow to find each other — or to hide.
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1,000 – 4,000 m
Midnight zone
No sunlight at all. The only light comes from living things, and the water is near freezing.
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4,000 – 6,000 m
The abyss
Vast, flat and silent plains of soft sediment, under pressure hundreds of times stronger than at the surface.
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6,000 – 11,000 m
The trenches
The deepest places on Earth. The Challenger Deep goes down almost 11 kilometres — deeper than Everest is tall.