Usually fishermen like to brag about the size of their fish, but recently scientist with the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology say, they’ve caught a fish at the deepest depth ever. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Usually, fishermen like to brag about the size of their fish, but recently scientists
00:04with the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and
00:08Technology say they've caught a fish at the deepest depth ever.
00:12So what did they catch?
00:13One of these, a juvenile snailfish.
00:15It was caught at a depth of 8,336 meters, or roughly 5 miles below the surface of the
00:21ocean in the Izu-Agasawara Trench.
00:24That means the fish was caught at a depth some 518 feet deeper than the previously deepest
00:29caught fish, something the expedition's chief scientist Alan Jamieson says will likely remain
00:34the biggest jump in depth moving forward.
00:36So if someone does find a deeper fish, it's not going to be by much.
00:40It would become trivial now.
00:41I don't think there's any way in which we'd find a fish a thousand meters deeper or even
00:46maybe a hundred meters deeper.
00:48So we're confident now that we've really understood this.
00:51This was all part of a 10-year study, one including around 500 deep-sea lander deployments,
00:56a painstaking and difficult, albeit thrilling, process.
00:59Well, you still get a real good buzz out of it because the way in which the cameras work
01:03is you put them underwater for maybe 10 hours and we have no real-time communication.
01:08So it comes back on the surface eventually and we bring it on the ship and we download
01:13it and you end up with a small SD card and you stick it into your laptop and then you
01:16open up the video and see what you get.
01:18With the researcher adding that more studies of these zones need to be done around the
01:22globe as most of the planet's surface is miles underwater.