Scientists photographed a snailfish swimming 8,336 meters below sea level near Japan, making it the deepest recorded fish ever caught on camera.
Scientists dropped an autonomous"lander" camera into the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan and filmed the snailfish that they estimated to be at or"very close to" the maximum depth that any fish can survive, according to BBC."If this record is broken, it would only be by minute increments, potentially by just a few meters," Prof Alan Jamieson, a University of Western Australia deep-sea scientist, told the outlet.
The previous deepest recorded fish in the Mariana Trench was identified as a Mariana snailfish, which had been known to scientists since 2014, Insider reported at the time.
Jamieson speculated that the fish were able to survive greater depths than those found in the Mariana Trench due to the Izu-Ogasawara's slightly warmer waters, the BBC reported. "We predicted the deepest fish would be there and we predicted it would be a snailfish," Jamieson said according to the outlet."I get frustrated when people tell me we know nothing about the deep sea. We do. Things are changing really fast."
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