(BCN) – Four scholars, Afletum with Discovery, announced on Tuesday that they were the first to photograph two types of rare squid alive, in their natural environments.
They were part of a long team and a crew on board the “RV Falkor (also), which is managed by the Schmidt Institute of Ocean in Palo Alto.
The great discovery was the massive incense, and its measurement is almost. It was taken on March 9 on a high -precision video in the South Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 600 meters, or 1968 feet.
The massive squid was recognized for the first time a hundred years ago, according to the Institute’s announcement. They have been transferred to the deck by the fishermen in the past, but they have never been unprecedented in their home in the depths of the seas. It is estimated that adults grow up to 23 feet and can weigh more than a thousand pounds.
Michelle Taylor, from the University of Esix, was on board as a major investigator.
“We were focusing on the southern Sandwich Islands, which is a really distant site worldwide, and Taylor rarely visited it,” said Taylor.
The massive squid should not be confused with the giant squid, which lives in the tropical and moderate oceans. The massive squid is seen in the form of fins except in the Antarctica, and it is determined by distinctive hooks on its eight arms.
Many credit goes to advanced technology. A high -definition video camera has been installed to the low automatic potato bowl of the ship. Since the direct high -quality video was transferred directly on the Internet, experts around the world enable the analysis and identification of species in the actual time.
The second “first” happened on January 25 during a previous exploratory trip in the Bilgeshevin Sea.
It was the first confirmed footage of the ice glasses. Also, he was not alive in his natural environment. On the plane, the depth of the depth of the seas Thom Linley, a fish coordinator from the New Zealand Museum TE PAPA TONGAREWA.
“When we went to the sea of Bilgeshason,” Linley said. “The Chicago area has separated on the ice shelf and then politely out of the road, and we managed to enter first and examine the sea floor.
Watch the footage of the control room on the bowl, where the camera moved the photos from a depth of 2254 feet. The rare glass squid put his arms loosely over his head, something he noticed in the other glass squid, and he knew what he was seeing.
These notes help scientists fill the life stage and habitat data gaps, especially around the depths in which adult squid and events live. The search sheds light on the camouflage camouflage, how they evade predators and how their eyes adapt to different environments. Researchers are also developing non -interventional camera systems with red light and biological simulation to attract and record the most essential squid.
The institute will continue to work in the southern Atlantic for another four years, with the expectation of a return to Antarctica in 2028.
The Schmidt Institute was established in Palo Alto in 2009 by Eric and Windy Schmidt.
The 35-day campaign that took the massive squads was collaborated between the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the Nippon Foundation -Nekton, and GOSOUTH, a joint venture between the University of Pleimmouth, in the United Kingdom, the Geomar Helmholtz Ocean Research Center, in Germany, and the British fixed anti-wiping.