Dive 10: Coffinfish
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin. Download (mp4, 22.2 MB)

Just before beginning the return to the sea surface, after exploring the seafloor of South Palmyra Slope at a depth of ~500 meters, we saw this chaunax, sometimes called a coffinfish or toadfish, on the wall.

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