About
Why the Sea Floor
Every coast print we could find stops at the waterline, or tints the sea one blue and calls it done. The sea floor is the reason a coast looks the way it does from the beach: the canyon that makes Nazaré's wave, the wall off Grand Cayman, the trench a hundred kilometres off Puerto Rico's north shore. So we draw it.
Painted Deep is a studio of the Painted family, run by [[ENTITY NEEDED]]. It draws from public grids that NOAA, Lamont-Doherty and the GEBCO project publish for anyone to use, and it reads them again for every order rather than keeping a copy that ages.
What we hold ourselves to
A sheet that drops a depth from its source is worth less than one that prints two numbers that disagree. When a published deep is inside your frame, its figure and ours print side by side, and the method page lists every one where ours misses.
Most of the sea floor has never been swept by a ship. We say how much of your frame was, on the sheet.
Who it's for
Divers who want the wall they dive on, surfers who want the canyon under the break, sailors who want the passage they crossed, and anyone who grew up on one coast and calls it their original ocean, as one person in our reading did.