This piece was inspired by Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy, a series of three nonfictional accounts of oceanic ecosystems written in the 1940s and ‘50s. Nicknamed “the biographer of the sea,” Carson paid sustained and exacting attention to the biodiversity of deep-sea ecologies as well as the littoral spaces of shorelines. Since Carson published these texts, though, much of this biodiversity has been lost or severely threatened due to overfishing, industrialization, and climate change. My piece emphasizes the “hidden” life of the sea as threatened by, but ultimately bigger than, the lingering threat of human encroachment, represented here via industrial fishing boats. Mixed media is used in the underwater scene to illustrate the wondrous texture and detail of ocean ecologies.