Thing to consider is that the Titanic wreck is at just under 3800m ... and that's considered a big deal to get down here (2 hours down and 2 back up) ...
RF - that's the Rockhopper Penguin, they almost exclusively are in South Atlantic. But that close to Antarctica, there are penguins a-plenty on all of those little outcrops
I have a fascination with asteroid impacts, mega-tsunamis, and some may have occurred in this region.
There is new evidence that an asteroid (not Dinosaur killer size, but still large) hit east of Madagascar about 5,000 years ago or so and may have created those large cliffs in the region of the Indian Ocean and may be the reason for the Biblical flood myths of the Cradle of Civilization.