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The record-breaking "snail-fish", video of the capture at 8,336 meters: it is the deepest ever caught

He took the bait while swimming in the abyss of the Izu-Ogasawara ocean trench in the western Pacific. Filmed by the research expedition of the University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

03/04/2023

Reuters

Scientists break the world record for the deepest fish ever caught, reaching 8,336 meters: a young "snailfish", took the bait, while swimming in the abyss of the Izu-Ogasawara ocean trench, in the western Pacific. The experiment of a team from the University of Western Australia.
It is the deepest fish ever caught.

Filmed by the research expedition of the University of Western Australia and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.