Scientists filmed a fish swimming at very deep waters off the coast of Japan, breaking the previous record set in 2017. This is a species of snails of the genus Pseudoliparis that swam at a depth of 8,336 meters. The snail fish was captured by an autonomous lander that landed in the Izu-Ogasawara trough in southern Japan.
Scientists have set a new record for the deepest fish ever caught on camera, as well as the deepest catch ever made.
A juvenile snailfish was filmed swimming at 8,336m in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan.
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The lead scientist said the snail fish could be at or very close to the maximum depth any fish can survive. The previous sighting of fish at great depth was at a depth of 8,178 meters, further south in the Pacific Ocean, in the Mariana Trench.
Alan Jamison, a professor at the University of Western Australia, predicted 10 years ago that fish could probably swim at depths of 8,200 to 8,400 meters. The professor said the finds of fish deeper than those found in the Mariana Trench are likely due to the warmer waters of Izu-Ogasawara.
“We predicted that the deepest fish would be there, and we also predicted that it would be snail fish,” he said. “I get upset when they tell me that we don’t know anything about the depths of the sea. We know. The situation is changing very quickly,” he said.
Jamison is the founder of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Center, which collaborated with a team from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
The snails are really amazing. There are over 300 species, most of which are actually shallow water creatures and can be found in estuaries. These fish have adapted to the cold waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the extreme pressure conditions that prevail in the world’s deepest trenches. At a depth of 8 kilometers, they experience a pressure of more than 80 megapascals, that is, 800 times the pressure on the surface of the ocean. Their gelatinous body helps them survive.
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