Questions for ‘Sea creatures’ fishy scent protects them from deep-sea high pressures’
![an underwater photo of a very large grumpy looking fish looking at the camera](https://www.snexplores.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1440_high_pressure_fish_feat-1030x580.jpg)
This particularly grumpy-looking ophidiiform cusk eel had its picture snapped at a depth of 1,585 meters (5,200 feet). Its tissues hold a crucial chemical that enables it and other deep-sea fish to endure extreme underwater pressures.
NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research/Gulf of Mexico 2017