Victor Vescovo

It was pretty special.

Wow.

Any of these organisms?

Below a certain level, they can't.

I can't remember the exact depth, but we found the deepest fish ever recorded in one of the Japanese trenches in 2022, our expedition did with the Japanese, who are great to work with, by the way.

I can't exactly recall the exact depth of that fish, but it was predicted because after a certain pressure, vertebra can't form.

And without a vertebra, you can't have a fish.

It looks, it's very gelatinous.

It's one of my favorite fishes because it kind of has an embedded grin on it.

Just looks that way.

And it just does its thing.

It swims at the bottom of the ocean and it feeds off whatever drops from above.

And it's kind of ghostly white, kind of translucent, but it looks like a pretty simple, happy fish.

What was that like to be somewhere?

Well, it was a combination.

No one had ever been there.

And there's, you know, deep explorer gene, I guess.

You want to go someplace no one else has ever been before.

But also the technical challenge.

only twice before our expedition had anyone ever been to the bottom of the ocean.