This ocean ridge diorama incorporates violet, aqua, blue, ruby and jade murrini canes individually torched into the design.

The design replicates giant tube worms and other creatures that live near hydro-thermal vents 1.5 miles beneath the oceans surface.

These animals thrive at enormous pressures and temperatures that reach 750 degrees. This is nearly half the temperature as the molten glass we use to create these designs.

Deep sea organisms lack sunlight for photosynthesis, so they depend on chemo-synthetic bacteria for food.

Hydro-thermal vents emit super heated water rich in dissolved minerals which support large populations of bacteria.

The bacteria use these minerals to produce organic material that fuels a food chain which includes snails, shrimp, crabs, fish, octopus and others.