'Until this expedition, no one had ever seen nor collected a single fish from this entire trench.'
After a few days, the team found what they were looking for in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan. The team collected two fish in traps from deep, 26,319 feet .
"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," UWA Professor Alan JamiesonThese snailfish, Pseudoliparis belyaevi, were the first fish to be collected from depths greater than 8,000m and have only ever been seen at a depth of 25,272 feet in 2008.
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