The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV SuBastian — a robot fitted with a slew of scientific instruments and capable of descending down to 14,763 feet, or 4,500 meters — filmed the squid on March 9 off the South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The squid was swimming at some 1,968 feet, or 600 meters, beneath the surface.

The footage was taken during a survey of Timor-Leste’s deep sea environment, a South-East Asian nation that takes up half the island of Timor. This discovery came as researchers used ‘low cost deep sea cameras’ which picked up the rare footage of the shark, videoed for the first time ever.