Well for one thing water wouldn't collect in drops. It also would affect pretty much everything that lives in or on water. For example there are kinds of bugs that use the surface of the water to stand on and lots of other organisms that use surface tension for their own benefits. Hope this helps!
A whale-fall is the carcass of a cetacean that has fallen into the Bathyal on the ocean floor. The sediment ussally becomes infested with huge populations of polychaete worms and unusal crutaceans.
I hope that helped... :)