Spending time at the bottom of the ocean is a lot of people's worst nightmare and it's easy to understand why when you drop a camera down there.
YouTuber Barny Dillarstone has a passion for dropping his camera in the sea and sharing what he finds, recently recording a video which captured 'first ever footage' of a rare sea creature.
The thought of spending too long in any foreign ocean is a scary concept for plenty of us, especially when you consider just how many deadly creatures there are down there, whether it's blood-thirsty sharks, venomous jellyfish or simple sting rays.
Barny's recent video saw him drop a night vision camera off the coast of Indonesia, capturing a wide array of oceanic creatures and marine life, which emphasised just how much you can find below the surface.
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Across six different drops, the explorer witnessed a diverse range of strange deep-sea creatures, from nautilus to moray eels, deep-sea sharks, and enormous rays that may have never been recorded in the area before.
At one point, when he pulls the camera back into his boat, he manages to bring a crustacean species known as an isopod with him, with the little creepy crawly looking far from happy about being extracted from the ocean, before being returned back home.
Other drops capture a conger eel dragging another eel down into the abyss, which one viewer called 'absolute cinema', while we also got to see an eel spinning like an electric drill as it attempted to prise the bait away from the camera.
Barny's camera becomes a hotspot for oceanic visitors, with a shark even swimming past at one point, while the chaotic conger eel could also be seen eating a crab, whereas the spider crabs in general seemed more content to share the food rather than attacking anyone else who dared to enjoy it.
Perhaps the most fascinating part of deep sea videos however, is that they are constantly exposing us to new species or creatures that we're unlikely to ever come across.
Another recent video shared by Natural World Facts on YouTube showed off a huge Greenland shark on camera, which is hopefully the closest we will all ever come to a giant shark which is more than capable of shredding us to bits if they feel like it.
Thanks to Barny, other explorers and the massive advancement of camera capabilities, these videos allow us to get face to face to some of these magnificent creatures, thankfully without ever having to worry about them swimming too close to us, unlike you are a keen scuba diver of course.
James Moorhouse