Scientists break new record after finding world's deepest fish

Scientists break new record after finding world's deepest fish

By UWA Professor Alan Jamieson

Source: uwa

4/3/2023

“We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish; there is so much more to them than simply the depth, but the maximum depth they can survive is truly astonishing.”

In September 2022, the research ship DSSV Pressure Drop undertook a two-month expedition to the deep trenches around Japan in the north Pacific Ocean.