Deepest dwelling fish in the ocean caught on camera by tech scientists over 5 miles below surface

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March 3rd, 2018, 7:48 am

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A talented team of Japanese scientists filmed a snailfish at more than 26,800 feet below the surface. It's the deepest a fish has ever been caught on camera.
Extreme pressures at that depth make it impossible for most vertebrates to survive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yG_sfow11Q A team of Japanese scientists set a record catching the deepest-dwelling fish on camera more than 26,000 feet below the ocean surface.

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology filmed a snailfish in late August in the Marianas Trench, the deepest zone of the Pacific Ocean, at 26,830 feet below the surface.

To catch the creature on camera, the scientists placed a series of high-resolution cameras on an unmanned submersible. Using mackerel as bait, the team caught an underwater feeding frenzy at a depth of 7,498 meters, or just under 25,000 feet, with giant amphipods — a type of deep-sea crustacean — as well as a group of snailfish swarming the mackerel.

A few hours after lowering the submersible even more, to t0 8,178 meters, or 26,830 feet, the team filmed a lonely snailfish that came to poke around the remains of the mackerel.

"We've set a world record for filming a fish at an accurately measured depth," Oguri Kazumasa, a senior scientist at the agency, told the Japanese news outlet Jiji Press.

He added: "We hope we can shed more light on the deep-sea ecology and the depth limit for fish to inhabit."

The snailfish species they filmed, identified as a Mariana Snailfish, had been unknown to scientists before a team filmed one in 2014, according to National Geographic.

Snailfish occupy the deepest part of the water column, known as the hadal zone, where no light penetrates — it's always pitch black.

The ghostly-white species has evolved to withstand at that depth extreme pressures equivalent to the weight of 1,600 elephants, National Geographic reports.

Source; pulse.ng

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