Video of a Rare Deep-Sea Shark Blows One Scientist’s Mind

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A Greenland shark is filmed off Russia’s Arctic coast for the first time—nerdy expletives follow

December 17, 2014 By Taylor Hill

Taylor Hill is TakePart's associate environment and wildlife editor.


We’ve seen videos of rocket scientists high-fiving after a successful Mars rover landing, and now we have footage of how one marine researcher handles discovering a rare shark species where it had never been seen.

The video, released Dec. 17 by National Geographic, shows researcher Alan Turchik’s reaction to seeing, for the first time, a Greenland shark swimming off the coast of Russia’s Franz Josef Land, a series of 192 islands north of the Barents Sea.

The discovery came last year as part of a research project documenting the biodiversity in Russia’s high Arctic—a study published this week in the journal Peer J. During its time north, the team deployed drop cams—basically cameras inside glass balls—that recorded footage of the deepest reaches of the ocean.

“There was literally no life,” Turchik says in the video. “I filmed three hours, and there was no life. I thought the deployment was a bust.”

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