Professor Alan Jamieson of the University of Western Australia’s Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre announces that his team has captured footage of a Snailfish species, Pseudoliparis belyaevi, swimming at 8,336 metres (27,349 ft) in the Izu–Ogasawara Trench off Japan’s southern coast. This is the lowest depth recorded for any fish, and closest to the estimated maximum depth possible for fish to survive.