The Bloop: A Mysterious Sound from the Deep Ocean

[rosie]

Explanation: What created this strange sound in Earth's Pacific Ocean? Pictured above is a visual representation of a loud and unusual sound, dubbed a Bloop, captured by deep sea microphones in 1997. In the above graph, time is shown on the horizontal axis, deep pitch is shown on the vertical axis, and brightness designates loudness. Although Bloops are some of the loudest sounds of any type ever recorded in Earth's oceans, their origin remains unknown. The Bloop sound was placed as occurring several times off the southern coast of South America and was audible 5,000 kilometers away. Although the sound has similarities to those vocalized by living organisms, not even a blue whale is large enough to croon this loud. The sounds point to the intriguing hypothesis that even larger life forms lurk in the unexplored darkness of Earth's deep oceans. A less imagination-inspiring possibility, however, is that the sounds resulted from some sort of iceberg calving. No further Bloops have been heard since 1997, although other loud and unexplained sounds have been recorded.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100427.html

Calls from the deep: much more on the subject:
http://www.science.org.au/nova/newsc.../102ns_001.htm

I find this research fascinating, are the noises natural ocean sounds, man made, or could they be of an alien nature? Or, could it just be the icebergs? What has me thinking of this subject, is the "silence" now in the oceans. What has changed? Just another mystery I guess to look deeper into.

[Lucid Jia]

Very interesting. I have always been fascinated with what lies deep beneath our oceans. There still must be 100's of species that haven't been discovered. We don't even know the breeding places or habits of the blue whale so who knows whats out there.

There has also been lots of reports of ufos either entering or leaving the oceans, so quite possibly there are bases down there.

Namaste, Jia.

[Ross]

I have always thought that many mysteries, ancient history, secrets, are under the oceans, we already have evidence of past structures found of the coasts of many areas. The kermedec trench located north of New Zealand is 10,047 mtrs deep, approx 5miles deep. I am sure there are creatures beyond our knowing that live at such depth. We hear a lot of talk about underground facilities but what about under the ocean...2/3rds of the earths surface is underwater....

thanks Rosie

Peace