In the deepest-ever footage recorded, scientists have captured fish living five miles below sea level, according to multiple reports.
Teams out of Australia and Japan released the footage on Sunday seven months after their findings South of Japan.
PEOPLE has reached out to Alan Jamieson for comment.
University of Western Australia
Specifying toReutersthat it was a total of two snailfish of thepseudoliparis belyaevi species, the fish were measured at roughly 4.3 inches, or 11 centimeters.
“The Japanese trenches were incredible places to explore; they are so rich in life, even all the way at the bottom, said Jamieson, who is the founder of UWA’sMinderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre.
“We tell people from the very early ages, as young as two or three, that the deep sea is a horrible scary place that you shouldn’t go and that grows with you with time,” Jamieson added. “We don’t appreciate the fact that it is fundamentally most of planet Earth and resources should be put into understanding and how to work out how we are affecting it and how it works. We don’t appreciate the fact that it (the deep sea) is fundamentally most of planet Earth and resources should be put into understanding and how to work out how we are affecting it and how it works.”
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In an interview with BBC, Jamieson said that the depth recorded in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan of the swimming snailfish could be the maximum, or “very close to” the maximum depth that any fish can survive.
“We predicted the deepest fish would be there and we predicted it would be a snailfish,” Jamieson continued to BBC, adding: “I get frustrated when people tell me we know nothing about the deep sea. We do. Things are changing really fast.”
source: people.com
