the briny deep

Sea lions, he added, are like “sentinels of the sea,” providing clues about what is affecting the briny deep, such as toxins that sicken them and shifting fish populations that they chase.

That posture in Annakacygna’s modern relatives suggested a new possibility: that the flightless swans might have enshrined this behavior into their anatomy, converting their bent wings and broad hips into specially adapted cradles to carry chicks safely across the briny deep.

When a surfer goes down, you will—I think—spring into action, because you are—I think—the last line of defense between an imperiled surfer and the terrors of the briny deep.

In them, she does things she doesn’t often do on screen: deliver snappy one-liners, dispatch men twice her size in hand-to-hand combat, strap into cybernetic scuba-armor, do battle with CGI monstrosities from the briny deep.

The specific register of the show’s humor, a few leagues farther into the briny deep of camp, favored the inexplicable and outlandish.