Sea slug caught on camera at record depth

Scientists from Australia and Japan captured on camera a sea slug of the genus Pseudoliparis at a record depth of 8336 meters, according to message press office of the University of Western Australia. “We have spent over 15 years studying these deep-sea creatures, the maximum depth they can live at is truly amazing,” said Professor Alan Jameson. It was possible to remove the sea slug during the expedition in the fall of 2022: the team studied the fish population in two trenches off the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean – Ryukyu and Izu-Ogasawara. The last record was set in 2017. Then the sea slug was filmed at a depth of 8178 meters in the Mariana Trench.