But these living fossils, on reaching the sunshine, died within a few hours-like fish brought up from the enormous pressures of the ocean deeps.
This produces the cracking and shifting of the crust, together with earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain ranges, ocean deeps, and so on.
For a thousand years the Soulmonger had lurked in the ocean deeps, unable to be opposed.
Not only all human life but every bird and beast and even the fish in the ocean deeps.
"Not bad for a six-inch fuzzy iridescent worm of ancient lineage from the ocean deeps."
Eventually the distribution of the objects' landing points - always at ocean deeps, never on land - implies intelligence.
Humanity nevertheless feels threatened by this new phenomenon - particularly since the newcomers show signs of intensive work to adapt the ocean deeps to their needs.
The word held all the cold, benighted terror of the ocean deeps.
They came to a great crack in the bed of the sea, an abyss deeper than all the ocean deeps.
Sons of the ocean deeps (1952)