“A whole lot of meters under the floor lurks a predator older than the dinosaurs and larger on common than the nice white,” writes OceanX in a YouTube video caption. “That is the story of a bunch of scientists who got here collectively to realize the unthinkable: tagging the cryptic bluntnose sixgill #shark in its pure atmosphere utilizing a submarine.”
Although the footage is from 2019, the video of a bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) exploring a deep-sea submersible (and the scientists’ response from inside) is recirculating on-line. It’s fairly unimaginable to see this huge, strange-looking shark up shut.
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The bluntnose sixgill shark is a big, deepwater shark with “a broad, flat head, large green eyes, and a small, single dorsal fin far along its back.” These animals are sometimes 15-16 toes lengthy, however they will develop to be as much as 18 feet long. Scientists know comparatively little about this species, because it lives at depths.
OceanX mentioned throughout this journey, scientists have been capable of tag an animal from a submersible for the primary time ever. Up to now, OceanX mentioned scientists have been solely capable of tag these cryptic sharks (and others) by bringing them as much as the floor.
Watch a sixgill shark try a deep-sea submersible right here:
And right here’s the full-length model of the video:
“Six Gill Shark investigates MIR I Submersible, 1990.” Header inventory picture by Ralph White/Getty Photos