Scientists have landed the deepest fish ever caught off the coast of Australia, from 6.5 kilometres underwater.
Incredible footage shows the two new unnamed species of snailfish swimming around a yabby trap,
which was bought from a Perth tackle shop and tied to a $100,000 piece of scientific monitoring equipment resistant to extreme pressure.
Researchers from the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Centre used a boat to explore
the bottom of the Diamantina Fracture Zone in the south-eastern Indian Ocean,
an area of ridges and trenches which get as deep as 7100 metres, off Western Australia.