The wide, lifeless expanse.

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https://books.google.com/books?id=XsrvL26se48C&pg=PA22 page 22 Among the most illuminating and certainly the most bizarre of self-replicators are the digital organisms invented by Thomas Ray of the University of Delaware. … https://books.google.com/books?id=XsrvL26se48C&pg=PA23 page 23 A peculiar creature that is 80 instructions long, but differs from the ancestral sequence by 20 or so alterations, has sometimes been observed; it is a hyperparasite able to force parasites to replace themselves with copies of itself.

A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.