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BARRELEYE FISH With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released last 2009 but taken in 2004. The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found wit h its soft transparent dome intact. The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939--but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.

Milford Sound, including the coach trip from TeAnau, is everything people said it would be.The only negative was biting flies at the dock and we wore bug spray so they weren't a problem. We passengered on the Wanderer, a masted vessel holding 80 people. We viewed falls, seals, and formations close up. It was mostly overcast. This is a very rainy area, so we did not expect to see the sun. The clouds added drama to the day, so low that the mountain tops pushed above them. The waterfalls were numerous, ranging from volumnous cascades to pencil-thin trickles. Mitre Peak appeared as a green mound near the boat dock.

Zhemchug Canyon is a giant underwater canyon located in the middle of the Bering Sea. This submarine canyon is the largest canyon in the ocean. The canyon has a vertical relief of 2600 metres dropping from the shallow shelf the Bering Sea to the depths of the Aleutian Basin. Zhemchug Canyon is deeper than the Grand Canyon. Zhemchug Canyon has two main branches, each larger than typical continental margin canyons such as the Monterey Canyon. What makes the Zhemchug Canyon the largest canyon in the world is not only its great depth, but its large cross-sectional area.Zhemchug Canyon is the largest submarine canyon in the world, based on drainage area (11,350 km2) and volume (5800 km3). Zhemchug Canyon is in the Bering Sea and is the largest canyon in the ocean it has a vertical drop over 2600 metres. The World's Largest Ocean Canyon - Richard Hammond's Journey to the Bottom of the Ocean - BBC One