First ever live images of coelacanth fish in deep waters off Manado, North Sulawesi.

[Vie]

Between May 31 and June 4, 2006, underwater cameras deployed during an expedition jointly carried out by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Oceanology Center and Japan's Aquamarine Fukushima captured photographs of at least five living specimens of the coelacanth at a depth of at least 150m.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/sulawesi2006.html

Images can be seen at:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/625_0019000100920092,1.htm

 

[isurus]

Sounds like the second population is being actively and positively researched which is nice. There's a great book on coelocanths called something like "old four legs" which I recommend to anyone with an interest.

 

[CODMAN]

National Geographic had captures images and video of live coelecanths a while back (maybe 5-10 years ago). To my knowledge, those were the first images/videos. Although, these might be the first images/videos of the fish in Indonesia!

Not trying to diminish your find here. It's still great news!!!!! But to my knowledge, not the first.

Cheers!

 

[gangrel441]

National Geographic had captures images and video of live coelecanths a while back (maybe 5-10 years ago). To my knowledge, those were the first images/videos. Although, these might be the first images/videos of the fish in Indonesia!

Not trying to diminish your find here. It's still great news!!!!! But to my knowledge, not the first.

Cheers!

I read that title to mean first live images captured off of North Sulawesi, not first live images ever caught period.

 

[CODMAN]

Sorry, my mistake!

I find it great that they are discovering more populations of these fish! There is so much to learn about them!

 

[Vie]

Sounds like the second population is being actively and positively researched which is nice. There's a great book on coelocanths called something like "old four legs" which I recommend to anyone with an interest.

Agreed, J.L.B. Smith's Old Fourlegs: The Story of the Coelacanth is great. There is a newer book which has some info about the initial "discovery" of the Indonesian population - Samantha Weinberg's A Fish Caught in Time.

 

[drbill]

I remember back in the 60's (yes, I was there and I do remember... some of it) walking through the basement store rooms of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology on a mission for a professor. I turned a corner and there in a rather large museum jar was a preserved specimen of a coelocanth sitting in storage. Of course I knew right away what it was and spent a fair bit of time looking at the specimen... to the point I did forget what my professor asked me to retrieve down there and had to go back.

 

[isurus]

Agreed, J.L.B. Smith's Old Fourlegs: The Story of the Coelacanth is great. There is a newer book which has some info about the initial "discovery" of the Indonesian population - Samantha Weinberg's A Fish Caught in Time.

Ah - got my books mixed up - Weinberg's is the one I was thinking of (although JLBS' is referenced heavily throughout).

 

[AfterDark]

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