Opening July 18 at 11 a.m.

Long inaccessible domains, the abysses of the sea have always provoked a deep fascination, a mixture of curiosity and fear.

“How many have disappeared, hard and sad fortune! / In a bottomless sea, on a moonless night, / Under the blind ocean forever

buried! “sang Victor Hugo.

In the familiar and nurturing, yet often hostile and deadly, element of the seas and rivers, sailors, fishermen, explorers and even simple swimmers could, not without reason, fantasize about the strange creatures that swarmed beneath their ship’s hulls and feet.