Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.Download (mp4, 80.9 MB)
An exciting discovery during the exploration of a seamount in the process of being subducted under the Marianas Plate was an undescribed species of Pachycara (or “eelpout”), an abyssal fish genus of the family Zoarcidae.