Dropping a camera into a dark trench at the bottom of the sea, scientists captured terrifying images for the first time

Many strange images have been recorded.

A giant sleeping shark in the Pacific Ocean was recently filmed at a depth of 1,400 meters below the seabed. Its curious behavior when "tasting" the camera has left scientists extremely surprised.

There are many strange things going on in the deep sea, where humans can’t swim. Luckily, we have special cameras to explore this mysterious world . Humans can only dive to about 300 meters, and to go further we need special equipment like submersibles. Technology can go where the human body can’t, so when scientists launched an expedition into the Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean and dropped cameras down there, they got a clear view of what lies below.

Beyond a certain depth lies a relatively untouched world, untouched by the world above. Scientists have captured amazing footage of a giant Pacific sleeper shark swimming up to the camera and “tasting” it. This is quite normal behavior for sharks, as they have no arms and must explore everything using their mouths.

Dr Jessica Kolbusz (The Tonga Trench Expedition) explains in the video that the footage was shot at a depth of 1,400 metres, somewhere west of the Tonga Trench. She says that Pacific sleeper sharks can grow up to 4.4 metres long, although the largest of them can grow to over 7 metres, which is quite a size. As for this magnificent but slightly terrifying creature of the deep, the expert explains that this particular shark is female.

"This sighting occurred in the western part of the Tonga Trench, we assumed it was quite large, about 3.5 metres long, at a depth of 1,400 metres and as we did not see any hooks on the pelvic fin we identified it as a female. It went straight to the camera, from this angle we could see completely inside the shark's mouth. Shortly afterwards it realised the camera was not very good and moved on to another bait. The temperature was around 2.5 degrees Celsius, which makes sense as we know they prefer colder waters," she said.

The video was recorded

Indeed, as Dr. Kolbusz reports, we got a look inside the mouth of a Pacific sleeper shark. The large shark nipped at the camera, giving a clear picture of what it would be like to be eaten. Luckily for the scientists and the shark, it quickly turned to the fish they had placed next to the camera as bait and did not destroy the deep-sea camera.

After taking the bait attached to the camera rig, the enormous shark then swam away, giving scientists a clear picture of its size. Built to live in deep, cold, dark waters where humans dare not dive, the Pacific sleeper shark is a striking creature that can hunt silently because it makes very little noise as it moves through the water. It tends to subsist on a diet of bottom-dwelling fish, while the stomachs of sharks that have been studied have also shown a preference for the giant Pacific octopus.

Source: Ladbible

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