Facilities for the utilization of deep-sea water often catch deep-sea organisms that stray actively or passively into the influx tubes, and thus provide the chances for long-term in situ collection. Recently, a female specimen of the ceratioid, Cryptopsara couesii, was collected at the Okinawa dee-sea water facility. The inlet has been placed off Kume Island at the water depth of 612 m in the Eastern China Sea. Information about the distribution of C. couesii is only limited, and this finding adds a new geographical record to be archived.