have you ever seen a blob fish

Question: have you ever seen a blob fish
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Asked by anon-280288 on 8 Feb 2021.
- Katie West answered on 8 Feb 2021:
  
  Not in person!
- Amal Lavender answered on 8 Feb 2021:
  
  I don’t think so but maybe I didn’t realise there was one when I was diving in Asia & Australia (PS great question I had to google what it looked like, they have a tough gig being called ugly!)
- Kate Dobson answered on 8 Feb 2021:
  
  No, but I have seen some awesome fish when snorkelling. There is a really cool, colourful one called a Humuhumunukunukuapua’a that I like the best – but you don’t get them in the water off the UK
- Katie Sieradzan answered on 9 Feb 2021:
  
  Blob fish actually live really deep in the ocean, and are used to the super high pressure down there. So actually, photos you’ve probably seen of a blob fish are what it looks like at sea-level pressure, which is much lower than it is used to!
  If you saw a blob fish in the wild, you probably wouldn’t recognise it, because it would look completely different in its high pressure environment. 🙂
- Martin Ward answered on 9 Feb 2021:
  
  Ive saw photos of one, but I havent seen one in the water – maybe it looks quite different in the water swimming around?
- Helen Playford answered on 9 Feb 2021:
  
  Only in Stardew Valley! Sorry – that’s not a helpful answer! 🙂
  I do know that they are not as ugly in real life as when they come up to the surface of the ocean!
- Isabel Lewis answered on 9 Feb 2021:
  
  Not in person no, but now I know they live in the deep parts of the ocean, thanks to Katie Sieradzan!
- Philip Ratcliffe answered on 10 Feb 2021:
  
  Never even heard of them, but then I’m not a marine biologist.
  However, I have been but I’ve been diving at Cozumel in Mexico and also in the Red Sea – both places that have a fantastic amount of fish of all sorts, colours and sizes.

Question: have you ever seen a blob fish

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