WHILE an increasing number of expedition cruise lines now operate submersibles, it is unlikely you are about to break this record on your next cruise. Scientists in Japan have broken the record for the deepest fish ever caught on camera. The video was of a juvenile snailfish swimming along the...
WHILE an increasing number of expedition cruise lines now operate submersibles, it is unlikely you are about to break this record on your next cruise.
Scientists in Japan have broken the record for the deepest fish ever caught on camera.
The video was of a juvenile snailfish swimming along the bottom of a Japanese ocean trench at an extraordinary depth of 8,300 metres.
The snailfish was lured out of the pitch-black depths of the Izu-Ogasawara Trench by a mackerel tied to an autonomous camera as bait.
The tape was allowed to roll for six hours before the specimen was captured.
The fish is also a new species, which lives 1,000 metres below the next deepest fish.
It is thought it could be the species living at the most extreme depth on the planet.
