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Spurdog sharks <\/p>\n
The first animal he came across was a spurdog shark, or dogfish, which immediately went for the bait attached to the camera rig, which also includes a light. Remarkably, the dogfish, later identified as a western highfin spurdog, is believed to be the first-ever individual filmed alive in the wild. Later on, many other individuals arrived and were caught on camera. <\/p>\n
Those first few camera traps also captured a houndshark, but it didn\u2019t come very close to the camera. Dillarstone explains that creatures that live on the surface tend to avoid the light of his camera, while species that spend their entire lives in the darkness have no issue with it \u2014 and might even be attracted to it. <\/p>\n
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A purple eagle ray <\/p>\n
On the final day of his expedition, Dillarstone once again lowered the 20kg rig (44 lbs) to a 600-foot depth and it attracted an Indonesian wobbegong, a type of carpet shark. But perhaps more intriguingly, a purple eagle ray appeared on camera. <\/p>\n
\u201cLike the western highfin spurdog sighting, this discovery is particularly exciting because it\u2019s likely that this is the first footage of this species alive in the wild,\u201d the YouTuber says. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe effort was all worth it because we managed to record perhaps the first ever footage of at least two large, deep-water species swimming around in the wild.\u201d <\/p>\n
PetaPixel previously covered his expeditions into the Bali Sea<\/a> as well as his slow-motion foootage of a Bobbit worm.<\/a> <\/p>\n