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