Watch: World’s deepest fish caught on camera at more than 8km underwater
- last year
The world’s deepest fish ever filmed has been caught on camera by scientists from The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Japan at a depth of more than eight kilometres underwater.
An unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis was filmed in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan, at a depth of 8,336m during a two-month long expedition.
“The Japanese trenches were incredible places to explore; they are so rich in life, even all the way at the bottom,” UWA Professor Alan Jamieson, founder of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre, said.
An unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis was filmed in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan, at a depth of 8,336m during a two-month long expedition.
“The Japanese trenches were incredible places to explore; they are so rich in life, even all the way at the bottom,” UWA Professor Alan Jamieson, founder of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre, said.