Fights - Time-lapse video of deep-sea feeding frenzy

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Added: Friday February 23, 2007 · Category: Fights · Views: 58664
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This video clip from NHK�s �Planet Earth� shows the scene at dinner time on the deep ocean floor. The footage, which appears to have been shot by the Japanese submarine Shinkai 6500 in Okinawan waters at a depth of over 1500 meters (5,000 feet), shows sea-floor scavengers fighting for their piece of a fish carcass that has drifted down to the bottom. Crabs, eels and giant isopods (Bathynomus giganteus), which look like 30 centimeter (1 foot) long wood lice, join in the feeding frenzy that lasts several hours. Here it is time-lapsed to about 20 seconds for maximum impact. Itadakimasu.

Restored from the 2005 archive: This video was originally posted to FileCabi.net by an anonymous poster on February 23rd 2007 (video quality may vary) and was restored from web archives on November 6th 2026. At the time of restore the video had 59K views and a 3.47 star rating, which have also been restored.