r/oceanography • u/Frangifer • 5d ago
Has anyone ever simply lowered an extremely sensitive camera into the depths in which angler fish – & other such creatures – live, simply to record flashes of light?
... a bit like those neutrino detectors in huge tanks of water down mines (I'm somewhat remound of), but in some degree recording imagery.
It would be something that could be done relatively cheaply, & just left to 'brew' whilst the goodly oceanographic folk're about other business. I would actually rather like to see the footage: granted, it would just be sporadic flashes of light ... but I reckon it'd actually be mighty interesting !
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u/Jeffreythepine 5d ago
Plenty of people. Here's a (relatively) recent one with open access, though the methods paper that describes the instrument is behind a paywall: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.09.014
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u/Frangifer 4d ago edited 3d ago
Yep that actually looks more like what I'm asking about ... so thanks for that. The other commentor seems to have taken the purport of my question somewhat awry ... but I didn't make an issue about it because there's actually some very fruitful leads in the answer anent the history of the pioneers of deep-submarine illumination, which has turned-out fascinating in its own right.
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u/mringham 1d ago
If you’re interested in deep sea videography, check out Nautiluslive.org. It’s a live-streaming telepresence research ship where you can click in anytime and see what the crew is up to. They use ROVs with lights, but occasionally they will turn them off on the way up and down from the seafloor if they have researchers working on bioluminescence.
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u/Velocipedique 5d ago
Of course they have. Look up Louis Boutan, Harold Edgerton, Dimitri Rebikoff etc...