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Researchers Drop a Camera Into the World’s Second-Deepest Marine Trench. A Rare Encounter Occurs
In a recent experiment conducted by the University of Western Australia and The Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, a camera dropped into the Tonga Trench, the second-deepest marine trench in ...
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Bigfin Squid: Magnapinna, Spotted In Tonga Trench
Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research Center, University of Western Australia ...
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Rare Pacific Sleeper Shark Spotted In Southern Hemisphere
The expedition itself was part of a broader effort to explore how biodiversity and species abundance shift across depths ranging from 3,280 to 32,808 ft (1,000 to 10,000 m) in the Tonga Trench.