Ghost fish: Sea creature that’s almost totally transparent identified as a salp

Credit: Pen News/Raniero Borg A DIVER encounters a ghostly ‘fish’ that’s almost totally transparent in mind-blowing new dive footage. Raniero Borg, who discovered the bizarre creature near Marsalforn, Malta, said he’d never seen anything like it in 40 years of diving. “It looked like a miniature jelly whale or dolphin,” he said. “It had a large mouth and you could see its gut as its body was transparent. It was approx 30cm in length and around 15cm wide. “Its spinal cord and rib-like features showed too.