What you can see in the following video is a historical milestone: the filming of a fish at the deepest depth ever achieved: 8,178 meters .
The fish, naturally, has been filmed in the deepest place we know: the Mariana Trench is the deepest oceanic trench known and the deepest place in the earth’s crust. It is located at the bottom of the northwestern Pacific, southeast of the Mariana Islands, near Guam. Its deepest point is called the Challenger Abyss with 11,034 meters deep and a pressure of 110,000 kPa.
Liparidae
What has been filmed is a vertebrate of the Liparidae family. The creature was captured by the 4K video cameras with which it was equipped two landing modules (installed at 7,498 and 8,178 meters) in the Mariana Trench, the result of the collaboration of a research team from the Japanese scientific agency JAMSTEC and Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
Knowledge of the existence of the Mariana Trench dates back to before 1870, when a ship tried to measure the depth by drilling with ballast tied to a rope, on that occasion a depth of 8 kilometers was probed. To date, however, only one human being has managed to reach the bottom alone: the director of films such as Avatar , Terminator , Titanic or Abyss James Cameron .