Scientists have successfully tagged an elusive sixgill shark in its natural deep sea habitat at some 1,600 feet below the ocean surface. An adult bluntnose sixgill shark was recently seen at a depth of 259 m (854.7 ft) in the Philippines. Scientists had previously managed to tag the sharks closer to the surface, but this time, the group used a submersible to tag a male shark on its own turf. Our objective was the deep-sea shark, the bluntnose sixgill. Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) seen while exploring Santa Rosa Reef, south of Guam, during the first dive of the Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition on April 20, 2016. On December 2, 2017, the ROV camera of Paul Allen's research vessel RV Petrel captured video footage of the shark lurking around a World War II shipwreck in Ormoc Bay. Scientists tag deep-sea shark hundreds of feet underwater—a first To better study the bluntnose sixgill, scientists had to figure out how to fire a speargun from a submarine. Up next The Most Rare Shark Species Hidden in The Ocean - Duration: 13:01. Ocean exploration group OceanX shared a video this week showing an absolute unit of a shark checking out a research team's submersible in the Bahamas. ; Footage from the submersible dives provides a rare look at a bluntnose sixgill shark (though not the one that was tagged). A team of marine biologists have tagged a bluntnose sixgill shark in its natural, deep-sea habitat using a submersible. We Tagged a Shark From a Submarine July 1, 2019 After a week in the Bahamas with our wonderful partners at the Cape Eleuthera Institute, this weekend we managed to achieve history—tagging an animal from a submersible (submarine) for the first time—EVER. This ancient species predates […] On December 2, 2017, the ROV camera of Paul Allen’s research vessel RV Petrel captured video footage of the shark lurking around a WWII shipwreck in Ormoc Bay.

An adult Bluntnose Sixgill shark was recently seen at a depth of 854.7 feet in the Philippines. This was the first time the Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. This was the first time the species was photographed in Philippine waters.




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