And according to scientists, this species isn't even meant to be a deep sea fish.

根據科學家的說法，這種魚類甚至並不是深海魚種。

Imagine being five miles below the surface of the ocean and seeing this little guy, a snailfish.

想像一下，當你在海洋表面五英里以下的深處看到這條小傢伙——蝸牛魚。

Snail fish are great. Snail fish are amazing because they are not a deep-sea fish.

蝸牛魚很棒，很神奇，因為它們不是深海魚。

So they're the deepest fish in the world, but they're not a deep-sea fish.

蝸牛魚是世界上最深魚類，但它們不是深海魚。

The family is called Liparidae and they are 300 species at least of snailfish.

這個家族叫做獅子魚科，至少有 300 種鍋牛鱼。

Most of them are very, very shallow.

牠們大多數都生活在非常淺的水域。

Most snailfish may live in shallow water.

大多數蝸牛魚可能生活在淺水區。

But when researchers from the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology recorded and caught this fish in August 2022, the snailfish was 27,349 ft down.

但是，當西澳大学和東京海洋大學海洋科學技術研究科的研究人員於 2022 年 8 月記錄和捕獲這種魚時，蝸牛魚生存在深度達 27,349 英尺的水域。

So these ones that you see in the video are 1000 meters deeper than what you would normally think of as being a deep-sea fish.

在影片中看到的這些魚比你普遍認為的深海魚生存的地方要深 1000 米。

So I love the fact that they're kind of small and goofy and barn and just not being very deep sea yet, at the same time, they're way more deep sea than most deep sea fish.

我很喜歡牠們小小隻又滑稽，而且並不是真的深海魚類，但同時牠們比大多數深海魚生存在更深海的地方。

For ten years, this team has been studying the deepest fish in the world.

這個團隊已經研究世界上生存在最深處的魚十年了。

Professor Jamison doesn't believe their new record will be beaten.

Jamison 教授不相信他們的新紀錄會被打破。

And if it is, it won't be by much.

就算有，也不會比這個發現還要深太多。

It becomes trivial. Now, I don't think there's any way in which we find a fish 1000 m deep or even, even, even, maybe 100 meters deep.

我認為我們很難找到生存在比 1000 米更深、甚至是 100 米深的魚了。

So we're confident now that we've really fully understood this.

所以我們現在很有信心，已經充分了解了。

The depths of the ocean have a bad rap.

海洋深處的名聲一直不太好。

According to Professor Jamieson, they'll still tell you that the deep sea is this cold, dark alien place full of monsters.

根據 Jamieson 教授的說法，大眾仍然會說，深海是寒冷、黑暗且充滿怪物的地方。

And therefore we don't appreciate the fact that it is fundamentally most of planet Earth and the resources should be put into understanding it and trying to work out how we're affecting it and how it works.

因此，我們並沒有實際意識到這也是地球絕大部分的本質，應該投入資源去了解它，試圖弄清楚我們如何影響它以及它是如何運作的。

This is Inside Edition digital.

這是 Inside Edition 數位版節目。