Alan J. Jamieson is a Scottish marine biologist, engineer, explorer and author, best known for his deep-sea exploration and study of life at the deepest places in the oceans. He is known for extensive use of deep-sea landers to establish the maximum depth and community dynamics of many organismal groups, as well as the discovery of many new species and highlighting the presence of anthropogenic impacts at full ocean depth. During the

Five Deeps Expedition Victor Lance Vescovo (born 1966) is an American private equity investor, retired naval officer, space tourist and undersea explorer. He is a co-founder and managing partner of private equity company Insight Equity Holdings. Vescovo achieved the ...

, and follow on expeditions in 2020, he completed various dives in a manned submersible to some of the deepest places in the world. He has published over 100 scientific papers and participated in 65 deep-sea expeditions.

Education and career

Jamieson was born in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

and grew up in

Largs Largs ( gd, An Leargaidh Ghallda) is a town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland, about from Glasgow. The original name means "the slopes" (''An Leargaidh'') in Scottish Gaelic. A popular seaside resort with a pier, the town mark ...

Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...

, and then

Longniddry Longniddry ( sco, Langniddry, gd, Nuadh-Treabh Fada)
...

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. He attended

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Prestonpans Prestonpans ( gd, Baile an t-Sagairt, Scots: ''The Pans'') is a small mining town, situated approximately eight miles east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the Council area of East Lothian. The population as of is. It is near the site of the 1745 ...

. From 1995 to 1999, he obtained a BSc Honours degree in Design for Industry at

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in Aberdeen. In 2000 he joined the newly formed Oceanlab at the

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as mechanical technician where he also completed a part time PhD entitled ''Autonomous lander technology for biological research at

mid-water The diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater, but professional diving is sometimes done in other liquids. Underwater diving is the human practice of voluntarily descending bel ...

abyssal The abyssal zone or abyssopelagic zone is a layer of the pelagic zone of the ocean. "Abyss" derives from the Greek word , meaning bottomless. At depths of , this zone remains in perpetual darkness. It covers 83% of the total area of the ocean an ...

and

hadal The hadal zone, also known as the hadopelagic zone, is the deepest region of the ocean, lying within oceanic trenches. The hadal zone ranges from around below sea level, and exists in long, narrow, topographic V-shaped depressions. The cumula ...

depths'', graduating in 2004. During his time in

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he worked, studied and published under Professor

Imants Priede Imants (Monty) George Priede is a British-Latvian zoologist, author and academic. He is Professor Emeritus in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland known for his work on fish and life in the deep sea. Priede has published over 150 research papers c ...

. Following two postdoc positions he became a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the

, based at the Oceanlab field station in Newburgh. In 2016 he joined the School of Marine Science and Technology at

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...

. In 2019 he founded the company Armatus Oceanic, focused in marine technology R&D, expeditions and science dissemination. Through Armatus Oceanic, he co-runs the Deep Sea Podcast with Dr Thomas Linley. In April 2021 he joined the

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as professor and founding director of the Deep-Sea Research Centre.

Scientific impact

Jamieson's early scientific work focussed largely on technology-driven studies into

deep-sea fish Deep-sea fish are fish that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish. Other deep sea fishes include the flashlight ...

behaviour and

pelagic The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean, and can be further divided into regions by depth (as illustrated on the right). The word ''pelagic'' is derived . The pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or wa ...

bioluminescence Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some fungi, microorganisms including some b ...

. He completed two EU funded postdocs, the first a sediment dynamics project named COBO (Coastal Ocean Benthic Observatories), that involved the design and construction of a deep-water Sediment Profile Imaging camera (SPI), the second was an astrophysics project named

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(Cubic Kilometre

Neutrino Telescope A neutrino detector is a physics apparatus which is designed to study neutrinos. Because neutrinos only weakly interact with other particles of matter, neutrino detectors must be very large to detect a significant number of neutrinos. Neutrino d ...

), where he surveyed deep-water

across potential sites for an underwater neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean. During his time at Oceanlab, he began a series of projects relating to exploring the

hadal zone The hadal zone, also known as the hadopelagic zone, is the deepest region of the ocean, lying within oceanic trenches. The hadal zone ranges from around below sea level, and exists in long, narrow, topographic V-shaped depressions. The cumula ...

(depths exceeding 6000m). He designed and constructed two full ocean depth rated

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to carry baited cameras, traps and other sensors to depth of nearly 11,000m. Between 2007 and 2013 he participated in and often led a series of seagoing expeditions that included the first finding of the

taxonomic order Taxonomic sequence (also known as systematic, phyletic or taxonomic order) is a sequence followed in listing of taxa which aids ease of use and roughly reflects the evolutionary relationships among the taxa. Taxonomic sequences can exist for taxa ...

Decapoda The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is esti ...

at hadal depths (including the deepest prawn ever found), the first video of fish greater than 6000m, filmed the deepest fish in the southern hemisphere, the deepest fish ever filmed (at the time), the deepest eel ever found, and the first footage and discovery of the ' supergiant amphipod' at hadal depths. These were achieved across a series 11 expeditions spanning the

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, Izu–Bonin,

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Kermadec Kermadec or de Kermadec may refer to: Geography * Kermadec Islands, a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand * Kermadec Plate, a long narrow tectonic plate located west of the Kermadec Trench * Kermadec Trench, ...

, New Hebrides,

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and Peru–Chile trenches in collaboration with the

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's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI; Japan) and the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric research (NIWA; New Zealand). These expeditions also saw the discovery of a hadal

amphipod Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...

species later to be named after him: '' Princaxelia jamiesoni''. In 2014, Jamieson was a co-Principal investigator on the joint US–UK–NZ
Hades
' projects: ''Hades-K'' to the Kermadec Trench and ''Hades-M'' to the

Mariana Trench The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about in length and in width. The maximum know ...

. The former was the first expedition to use the HROV ''Nereus'' to full scientific capacity. The vehicle was lost during this expedition, but by using spare parts and scrap metal, Jamieson constructed a full ocean depth lander, known as the ''Wee Trap'', that days later captured the deepest fish ever caught, ''

Pseudoliparis swirei ''Pseudoliparis swirei'', the Mariana snailfish or Mariana hadal snailfish, is a species of snailfish found at hadal depths in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It is known from a depth range of , including a capture at the deepest ...

''. On the second expedition, to the

, he set a new record for the deepest fish (the ' Ethereal snailfish' at 8145 metres deep) and the first video footage of the supergiant amphipod, '' Alicella gigantea''. From 2015 to 2017, Jamieson led the �
PharmaDEEP
�� expedition to the South Shetland Trench in

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on the Spanish naval ship ''Hesperides'' and participated in the Japanese RV ''Shinyo Maru'' expedition to the Mariana Trench in 2017, with the

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology , abbreviated as , is a national university in Japan. The main campus (Shinagawa Campus) is located in Minato, Tokyo and another campus (Etchujima Campus) is in Kōtō, Tokyo. History The university was established in 2003 with a merger of ...

for the

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documentary ''Deep Ocean, Descent into the Mariana Trench'', produced by

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. Some of his recent papers includes the deepest

cephalopod A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural , ; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head ...

(

octopus An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttle ...

) and deepest

squid True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting t ...

ever filmed, description of the DSV ''Limiting Factor'' full ocean depth submersible, a review of the deepest places in each ocean, and a contribution to an industrial scheme to eliminate

plastic pollution Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their habitat. Plastics that act as pollutants are catego ...

with

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of the Minder Foundation. A replica of Jamieson's third Hadal-Lander was constructed and used in a sequence in Episode 2 (''The Deep'') of the documentary ''

Blue Planet II ''Blue Planet II'' is a 2017 British nature documentary series on marine life produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Like its predecessor, ''The Blue Planet'' (2001), it is narrated and presented by naturalist Sir David Attenborough. After ...

''. The Hadal-Lander is seen descending into a CG model of a subduction trench, alongside some footage obtained during Hades-K and Hades-M. He was a guest presenter at ''

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'' ''Live'' at the

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centre in September 2017 38where he also joined

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's ''Science in Action'' live panel show with Roland Pease. He presented at Ocean TEDx KingsPark on 1 December 2021, and took the audience into the deepest ocean where few humans who have dived, including 11 km down in the Mariana Trench. In 2022 he led an expedition to the

Diamantina Fracture Zone The Diamantina Fracture Zone (DFZ) is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor, consisting of a range of ridges and trenches. It lies to the south of the mideastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin and Perth Basin, and t ...

in the East Indian Ocean where his team discovered the deepest fish off mainland

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at a depth of 6177 metres. His zoological author abbreviation is Jamieson. He has co-authored the description of 12 new species.

The Five Deeps Expedition

In 2018, undersea explorer

Victor Vescovo Victor Lance Vescovo (born 1966) is an American private equity investor, retired naval officer, space tourist and undersea explorer. He is a co-founder and managing partner of private equity company Insight Equity Holdings. Vescovo achieved the ...

selected Jamieson to be the Chief Scientist on the

, whose objective was to thoroughly map and visit the deepest point of all five of the world's oceans by the end of September 2019 in a two-person full ocean depth

submersible A submersible is a small watercraft designed to operate underwater. The term "submersible" is often used to differentiate from other underwater vessels known as submarines, in that a submarine is a fully self-sufficient craft, capable of ind ...

. Jamieson joined the expedition on the DSSV ''Pressure Drop'' in July 2018 and oversaw 103 deep-sea lander deployments spanning the Abaco Canyon, offshore

Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...

Grand Banks The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a series of underwater plateaus south-east of the island of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf. The Grand Banks are one of the world's richest fishing grounds, supporting Atlantic cod, swordf ...

Puerto Rico Trench The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The oceanic trench, the deepest in the Atlantic, is associated with a complex transition between the Lesser Antilles subduction zone to the sout ...

and the Agulhas Fracture Zone in the Atlantic Ocean, the

South Sandwich Trench The South Sandwich Trench is a deep volcanic arc, arcuate ocean trench, trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying to the east of the South Sandwich Islands. It is the deepest oceanic trench, trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the second d ...

in the

Southern Ocean The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. With a size of , it is regarded as the second-small ...

, the

and

Java Trench The Sunda Trench, earlier known as and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, is an oceanic trench located in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, formed where the Australian- Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate. It is ...

in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, the

, San Cristobal Trench, Santa Cruz Trench and Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean, and the

Molloy Hole The Molloy Deep (also known as the Molloy Hole) is a bathymetry, bathymetric feature in the Fram Strait, within the Greenland Sea east of Greenland and about 160 km west of Svalbard. It is the location of the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean. The ...

in the

Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...

. During the expedition he descended to a depth of 7180m in the

, and then to 10,710m in

Sirena Deep The Sirena Deep, originally named the HMRG Deep, was discovered in 1997 by a team of scientists from Hawaii. Its directly measured depth of is third only to the Challenger Deep and Horizon Deep, currently the deepest known directly measured ...

in the

, 7200m in the

and 2000m in the

Arctic The Arctic ( or ) is a polar regions of Earth, polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenla ...

with Vescovo. The first of these dives made him the first British citizen to reach hadal depths, and the second of these dives, made him the 8th deepest diving human in history. Jamieson rejoined the DSSV Pressure Drop in February 2020 fo
Caladan Phase I Expedition
to the wreck site of ''La Minerve''. In March 2020 he was Chief Scientific on th
Phase III expedition
to the deepest point of the

Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...

(Suakin Trough), where Jamieson and Vescovo successfully explored the Kebrit

Brine Pool A brine pool, sometimes called an underwater lake, deepwater or brine lake, is a volume of brine collected in a seafloor depression. The pools are dense bodies of water that have a salinity that is three to eight times greater than the surround ...

in the submersible.

Ring of Fire Expeditions

Between 2020 and 2022, Jamieson remained as Chief scientist of the DSSV Pressure Drop during th
Ring of Fire Expeditions
During this time he led an expedition to the Eastern

and th
Sui Shin Hole
and participated in the

Philippine Trench The Philippine Trench (also Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. It has a ...

expedition that found the wreck of the USS Johnston DD-557 which included a dive to over 10,000 m on the location where, in 1951, the Danish

Galathea Expedition The ''Galathea'' expeditions comprise a series of three Danish ship-based scientific research expeditions in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, carried out with material assistance from the Royal Danish Navy and, with regard to the second and thi ...

proved life existed beyond 10,000m deep. In 2021 he led a Minderoo Foundation charter on the DSSV Pressure Drop to the East Indian Ocean where he completed six submersible dives to the Wallaby-Zenith Fracture Zone and Wallaby Cuvier Escarpment between depth of 6600 and 4400 metres. In 2022 he led the DSSV Pressure Drop expedition to the trenches around

where he completed the first manned dive to the

Ryukyu Trench The , also called Nansei-Shotō Trench, is a 1398 km (868 mi) long oceanic trench located along the southeastern edge of Japan's Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean, between northeastern Taiwan and southern Japan. ...

at 7322 metres with

, and 9137 metres deep at the base of the

Boso Triple Junction Boso Triple Junction (also known as Off-Boso Triple Junction) is a triple junction off the coast of Japan; it is one of two known examples of a trench-trench-trench triple junction on the Earth (the other being the Banda Sea Triple Junction). ...

in the northern Izu-Ogasawara Trench.

Notable publications

In 2015, Jamieson published a book entitled ''The Hadal Zone, Life in the Deepest oceans'' with

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, which was nominated for the

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Book of the Year award (2015), and endorsed by film director and explorer

James Cameron James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability w ...

. He wrote the forewords for John Quentin’s 2021 Global Watch fiction novels, The Galathea Legacy and the Vernadsky Ultimatum. Notable publications include a paper entitled ''Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in the deepest ocean fauna'', published in ''Nature ecology & evolution'', ''Fishes of the hadal zone including new species, in situ observations and depth records of Liparidae'', published in 2016 in the journal ''Deep Sea Research Part I''. Jamieson was part of the team that led to the discovery of

microplastics Microplastics are fragments of any type of plastic less than in length, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Chemicals Agency. They cause pollution by entering natural ecosystems from a v ...

at full ocean depth, and was involved in a recent campaign with the WWF (Call it plastic) to name a hadal species ''Eurythenes'' ''plasticus''.

Deep-Sea Podcast

Since 2020, he has co-hosted the monthly Deep-Sea Podcast with Dr Thom Linley o
Armatus Oceanic
and Captain

Don Walsh Don Walsh (born November 2, 1931) is an American oceanographer, explorer and marine policy specialist. He and Jacques Piccard were aboard the bathyscaphe ''Trieste'' when it made a record maximum descent into the Challenger Deep on January 2 ...

known from the 1960

Bathyscape A bathyscaphe ( or ) is a free-diving self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic bathysphere design. The float is f ...

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dive to the

. During this time he has interviewed notable guests such as Dr

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, autho
Susan Casey
UN secretary Genera
Michael Lodge
His Serene Highness

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, and film director

, among others. In episode 13, he interviewed Australian submersible pilot Tim Macdonald o
Caladan Oceanic
at a depth of over 10,000 metres in the

from inside the

DSV Limiting Factor A deep-submergence vehicle (DSV) is a deep-diving crewed submersible that is self-propelled. Several navies operate vehicles that can be accurately described as DSVs. DSVs are commonly divided into two types: research DSVs, which are used for ex ...

References

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