Deepest Fish On Film

By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 5 comments   Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies   Baited Camera Traps, deep, fish, food fall, lander, Pacific, snailfish, Trench  

In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above,  Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found only in the Northwest Pacific between  6.1km to 7.5km deep.

Now this same group filmed swarms of the snailfish Notoliparis kermadecensis nibbling at bait 7560 meters, the deepest for a locality in the southern hemisphere. You can see that video here.

Of course all of this reminds me of…

5 comments to Deepest Fish On Film

• Glendon Mellow

  November 15, 2009 at 18:35 · Reply

  Excellent. I think I need to style my hair like Simon LeBon again.

  Those snailfish can sure shake it. Groove Armada style.

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  November 15, 2009 at 18:37 · Reply

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• max k

  November 18, 2009 at 01:42 · Reply

  Love it. Period.

• Andrew

  November 20, 2009 at 17:39 · Reply

  Fantastic fish footage (!!!) although I think you’ve dated yourself with the choice of music there :-)

• Kevin Z

  November 20, 2009 at 18:10 · Reply

  I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Music is timeless.