Japan in the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists captured footage of a snailfish swimming 8,336 meters below the surface, the deepest depths ever recorded.Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMST) released the video on Monday.
Read more: Video captures 33 swimmers accused of harassing wild dolphin pod in Hawaii In the footage initially recorded by an unmanned submersible in September, an “extremely small” young snailfish is seen swimming just above the seabed in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench.