Today (March 26) is the final dive of the Beyond the Blue: 2025 ROV and Mapping Shakedown expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. Today's dive will focus on engineering objectives and take place at a depth of approximately 1,100 meters (3,610 feet) off the western coast of Oʻahu. We're on the seafloor (after encountering the slowly swimming sea cucumber in the video during our descent). Join the dive live: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/livestreams/welcome.html | NOAA Ocean Exploration

What’s the deepest-living fish ever recorded? Not this one! (But they’re related.) Check out our new Ocean Exploration Fact to learn about how snailfish and other “deepest fish” contenders make things work at the absolute limits for vertebrate life. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean-fact/what-is-the-deepest-living-fish/ This snailfish, which looked to our team like it was grinning, was found during NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Seascape Alaska 5 Expedition in 2023. There's just something about tha