We saw the Mariana snailfish – a beautiful, ghostly white fish with diaphanous fins, cusk eels with tiny beady eyes, and lots of sea cucumbers, both resting on the seafloor but also moving within the ...

Mariana Alfaro is a reporter for The Washington Post's breaking political news team. Previously, she co-anchored Post Politics Now. Mariana joined The Post in 2019 as a researcher for the Daily 202.