China-led Pacific Ocean dive reveals deep-sea secrets in Kermadec Trench
Fascinating marine animals spotted by Chinese and New Zealand researchers thousands of metres below the surface
Expedition in China-made submersible perhaps ‘most efficient scientific sampling’ in depths below 6,000 metres, New Zealand marine ecologist says
Holly Chik
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Published: 3:00pm, 25 Feb, 2023
An upside-down anglerfish, as discovered by the team in the South Pacific Ocean. Photo: IDSSE
A red anglerfish swimming upside down, anemones with extra-long stalks, and plain, no-spikes sea cucumbers crawling along the sea floor with not a care in the deep-ocean world.
These are but some of the rarely seen deep-sea creatures living thousands of metres down in the ocean – where the sun does not reach and food is scarce – while withstanding water pressure that could be up to a thousand times greater than at the surface.
They were among the fascinating marine animals spotted by a team of researchers from China and New Zealand as they dived to one of the deepest places on Earth – the Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific Ocean.
“It’s perhaps the most efficient scientific sampling regime in the hadal depths [below 6,000 metres] that exists at the moment,” said David Bowden, a marine ecologist from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research who was part of the expedition.
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More:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3211481/china-led-pacific-ocean-dive-reveals-never-seen-secrets-deep-down-kermadec-trench
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A run-of-the-mill, ordinary, deep ocean anglerfish.
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