Even for a person like me who doesn’t fear reapers anymore ghost leviathans still scare the living daylights out of me. It’s especially creepy when they can disappear once you have made enough distance. So to make things short, I wouldn’t be too cocky about exploring the blood kelp zone (unless you’re exploring the zone where you enter through a trench. As far as I’m certain no ghost leviathans spawn there).
Ghost leviathans are cute sometimes, ngl. I'm making some cute art of them soon. I like making fan art. I also have a pice of a seamoth looking down on an underwater Portland, Or.
I was new to the game and was in my new seamoth, I entered it from near the kelp forest and the underwater islands, I saw a massive change in depth and thought “hmm this is cool,” and then my PDA says the line and I literally did a 180 out of there and made sure to stay away from there.