According to BBC News, oceanographic scientists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) managed to catch a snail fish. at a depth of about 8340 meters. The former “record holder” was discovered in the Mariana Trench at a depth of about 8,180 meters.

what is known

According to scientists, these are young individuals of an unknown fish-snail species of the genus Pseudoliparis. It was not possible to catch him, which prevented the scientists from completing his identification.

A kind of “consolation” prey was several fish of the species Pseudoliparis lozenge, caught at a depth of a little less than 8020 meters, which, by the way, is also a record – no one had managed to catch it at such a time. depth first

Pseudoliparis live in the hadal or ultra abyssal zone, which is the deepest part of the World Ocean and extends between 6,000 and 11,000 meters. It’s completely dark here because light cannot pass through such a layer of water.

The camera filmed the fish Pseudoliparis: video

UWA Professor Alan Jamieson suggested that the survival of snail fish in such extreme conditions is facilitated by warmer waters off the coast of Japan.

Scientists say these depths are the limits of the fish’s abilities. If the record is broken, then only for a very short time (perhaps a minute) and only a few metres.