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"How deep can fish live in the ocean? That question has captivated me for more
than a decade. But my research team’s discovery of the deepest sea fish,
announced this week, might not be the final answer. There may be more. How deep
– and how strange – remains open for debate.
Last year, my colleagues and I went on an expedition to the deep trenches
around Japan. Having already found the Mariana snailfish in 2014 – thought to
be the deepest ever – we had a hunch that with more exploration and a better
understanding of things like temperature, the Japanese trenches would host a
fish at even greater depths.
After another 63 deployments of our deep-sea cameras, bringing our total to
about 250 across the globe, we hit the jackpot.
We found what is likely a new species of fish in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench and
filmed it many times at depths between 6,500 and 8,000 metres. Then, at a
staggering 8,336m, a rather unassuming little juvenile slowly swam past the
camera, oblivious to the fact it had just become the deepest fish on record."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
