# 'Deepest ever' living fish filmed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 8, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983 "2008-10-08T13:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/1 "2008-10-08T13:55:11Z")

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[Not a million miles away from you-know-where.](http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7655358.stm)

It’s worth reading the story. You know, just once. How long you spend is up to you, but I’d suggest maybe a little over a quarter of an hour.

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**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/2 "2008-10-08T14:06:49Z")

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First glance, looked like sperm. 🙂

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/3 "2008-10-08T14:11:19Z")

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Kinda like spermy little Plecos.

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/4 "2008-10-08T14:13:25Z")

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“–Japanese fisheries immediately began researching the feasibility of a 5-mile-long bottom trawling net.”

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/5 "2008-10-08T14:44:28Z")

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Surprising - they look not much different from what you might see in a living room aquarium. They’re five miles below the surface yet still have two eyes on opposite sides of their head?

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/6 "2008-10-08T14:55:20Z")

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Deeper than [Deepak Chopra](http://www.chopra.com/wordsfromdeepak), [Jack Handy](http://www.deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/today.asp) or [Khalil Gibran](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/kahlil_gibran.html)? Not to mention [Kehlog Albran](http://rsidd.online.fr/profit/index.html)

AS IF!

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/7 "2008-10-08T15:01:12Z")

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Deeper than the Marianas Trench? We visited there in 1960. Hung around for twenty minutes and didn’t see any fish so we left. Haven’t been back.

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**Author:** ![counsel\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@counsel\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/counsel_wolf)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deepest-ever-living-fish-filmed/466983/8 "2008-10-08T15:03:53Z")

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> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> They’re five miles below the surface yet still have two eyes on opposite sides of their head?

Chances are that, like many cave fish, their ancestors were sighted and they have retained the eye structure because there’s no pressure to remove it although probably with little or no functionality.