Blackwater diving is a night dive in open ocean, well away from a reef, over very deep water. We aim for 3 kilometers away from the shore where the seafloor is over 1000 feet away.  When  we are at the drop zone we cast out a free floating  lighting array that acts as our dive center and attracts in planktonic life.  There is no noticeable current during a blackwater dive so it feels like diving in a supermassive dark swimming pool.

The largest migration of animal biomass happens every single night as animals migrate from the mesopelagic zone unto the epipelagic . In simple terms, plankton (pelagic life forms of fish, corals, and  invertebrates) migrates from the dark depths to the oceans surface each and every night.  This offers us the ability to see otherworldly lifeforms that are otherwise far beyond the reaches of scuba diving.