@Quicklynx, I've long been a diver and aquarist. Thus, I can appreciate your interest in keeping and (potentially) breeding deepwater species in aquaria.
I'll just add a bit more context to the issues that have already been addressed. In a link that someone provided, it said this species was collected at 700'. I don't even know how that would be possible on SCUBA. It seems more like an ROV/trap kind of thing.
To make a dive to 150m/495' is a rather huge undertaking. This kind of dive severely magnifies all risks divers face (e.g. getting bent, sustaining an embolism, carbon dioxide hit etc.). Simply put, as you go deeper, your margins for error shrink dramatically. To make a dive of this kind, you are looking at something like a 4 hour dive (mostly decompressing) for just 15 minutes of time at depth. You also have to decompress your fish and there's no guarantee of the fish surviving. Finally, where exactly are the fish? Just a single quick exploratory dive to those depths (to scout locations where the fish are) would be a couple of hours of decompression.
There's a scientist, Richard Pyle, in Hawaii who has done these kind of collecting dives for the museum in Hawaii. But it requires a lot of money, divers with the capability of pulling off those kinds of dives, and ideally a big (expensive) support team.
I'll just add a bit more context to the issues that have already been addressed. In a link that someone provided, it said this species was collected at 700'. I don't even know how that would be possible on SCUBA. It seems more like an ROV/trap kind of thing.
To make a dive to 150m/495' is a rather huge undertaking. This kind of dive severely magnifies all risks divers face (e.g. getting bent, sustaining an embolism, carbon dioxide hit etc.). Simply put, as you go deeper, your margins for error shrink dramatically. To make a dive of this kind, you are looking at something like a 4 hour dive (mostly decompressing) for just 15 minutes of time at depth. You also have to decompress your fish and there's no guarantee of the fish surviving. Finally, where exactly are the fish? Just a single quick exploratory dive to those depths (to scout locations where the fish are) would be a couple of hours of decompression.
There's a scientist, Richard Pyle, in Hawaii who has done these kind of collecting dives for the museum in Hawaii. But it requires a lot of money, divers with the capability of pulling off those kinds of dives, and ideally a big (expensive) support team.
