How we found world’s deepest fish in the Mariana Trench – and why we must keep exploring

Alan Jamieson

How we found world’s deepest fish in the Mariana Trench – and why we must keep exploring

Alan Jamieson

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Abstract

It was our 14th expedition to the trenches of the Pacific Ocean, where depths can exceed 10,000m. And it was due to be our last for the foreseeable future.

We had been aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s (SOI) vessel RV Falkor for 30 days. It was almost over. Then, it turned out to be “the big one”.

For this was the expedition in which my colleagues and I discovered a snailfish living some eight kilometres below the waves, deeper than any fish we know of. My colleagues from the University of Hawaii even recovered some in their traps.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publisher	The Conversation UK
Publication status	Published - 19 Dec 2014

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Alan Jamieson receives funding from SOI

Keywords

Deep sea
Snailfish

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How we found world’s deepest fish in the Mariana Trench – and why we must keep exploring

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