Demersal

'so why do you wear armor' is a question Demersal gets a lot. none of the other underwave crew wear armor, since it does hinder mobility and make it a bit harder to maintain neutral buoyancy under the waves, but Sal always has. He'll shrug and mumble something about it looking nice and all the boys like it, but if you're a potential recruit for the underwave crew? you get a different story.

a story about the things in the deep, their teeth in the darkness, the glint of bioluminescence against bloodied steel, silver-grey bones resting quietly in the ever-present rain of marine snow.

not many ships run with a deepwater crew. ask nicely, and Sal will show you why not.

the demersal zone is right above the benthic (bottom) zone in deep bits of water.