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Mystery Fish
A tiny submarine craft will track the elusive coelacanth, a curious looking fish that has been swimming the seas for an astonishing 400 million years.

Believed to be extinct for 70 million years, a coelacanth was trapped by a trawler in 1938 off the South African coast. Later, coelacanths were also discovered near the Comoro Islands and Indonesia. Recently deepwater scuba divers accidentally came across these fish in Saldana Bay off the country's northeast coast.

The mini submarine craft, which can fit only two people and probe to depths of 397 meters is expected to shed new light on this fish and living fossils.

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
Down to Earth [2]
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Fish [3], Research [4], Africa [5]
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