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Sleeper shark caught on camera off Antarctica for first time
Los Angeles Times
|February 19, 2026
A shark cruising over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was unexpected.
A SLEEPER shark swims near a video camera in Antarctica in January 2025.
The sleeper shark, filmed in January 2025, was estimated to be 10 to 13 feet long.
“We went down there not expecting to see sharks because there’s a general rule of thumb that you don’t get sharks in Antarctica,” researcher Alan Jamieson said.
“And it’s not even a little one either. It’s a hunk of a shark. These things are tanks,” he added.
The camera operated by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center, which investigates life in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, was positioned off the South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula. That is well inside the boundaries of the Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, which is defined as below the 60-degree south latitude line.
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