Every time someone sends a camera into the deep sea, something pretty cool seems to come back.

Justin Marshall, of the Queensland Brain Institute, and his team took a Florida-built deepsea equipment platform and sent it into the depths off the Osprey Reef. It sent back pictures of six-gill sharks, crustaceans, jellyfish and “many unidentified fish” around 1,400 metres below the surface (pictures). This picture shows an angler fish

“Osprey Reef is one of the many reefs in the Coral Sea Conservation Zone, which has been identified as an area of high conservation importance by the Federal Government,” says Marshall (press release).

“As well as understanding life at the surface, we need to plunge off the walls of Osprey to describe the deep-sea life that lives down to 2,000m, beyond the reach of sunlight. We simply do not know what life is down there and our cameras can now record the behaviour and life in Australia’s largest biosphere, the deep-sea.”