* Recently, scientists photographed a snailfish swimming 8,336 meters below sea level near Japan, making it the deepest recorded fish ever caught on camera.

* Scientists dropped an autonomous "lander" camera into the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan and filmed the snailfish.

* It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, on the boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Pacific Plate.

* It is one of the most seismically active regions on Earth.

* The trench is formed by the Pacific Plate subducting beneath the Philippine Sea Plate...

Source : Science Alert