Researchers have filmed the world’s deepest fish – Reuters

Thus, the 2017 record was broken – then a sea slug was filmed in the Mariana Trench at a depth of 8178 m.The university’s website quoted one of the expedition leaders, Professor Alan Jamison, as saying “more than 15 years have been spent studying these deep-sea fish”. The professor estimates that 8336 meters is the maximum depth at which they can survive. And that, he says, is “really amazing.”The press service also specifies that the expedition took place in September-October 2022 aboard the DSSV Pressure Drop in a deep water basin near Japan. The aim was to explore the deep pools at 7,300, 8,000 and 9,300 meters to gain information on the deepest fish populations in the world.The fish from the deepest seas was photographed at the bottom of the Izu-Ogasawara depression in southern Japan. The fish was an unknown species. Scientists were also able to trap two fish at a depth of 8022 m in the Japan Trench, these individuals were the first fish in the world to be caught at a depth of more than 8000 m.Professor Jamison assures that “Japanese depressions are incredible places of research, they are very rich in living creatures even at the bottom.”The professor also said that “the real finding is not that these fish live at a depth of 8336 meters, but that there is enough information about this environment”.

More

Show your support if you like our work.

Author

News Room
News Room
The Eastern Herald’s Editorial Board validates, writes, and publishes the stories under this byline. That includes editorials, news stories, letters to the editor, and multimedia features on easternherald.com.

Comments

Editor's Picks

Trending Stories