Watch: World’s deepest fish caught on camera at more than 8km underwater

The world’s deepest fish ever filmed has been caught on camera by scientists from The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Japan at a depth of more than eight kilometres underwater.

An unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis was filmed in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan, at a depth of 8,336m during a two-month long expedition.

“The Japanese trenches were incredible places to explore; they are so rich in life, even all the way at the bottom,” UWA Professor Alan Jamieson, founder of the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre, said.

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