Bloop , mysterious ultra - low frequency underwater sound which
was detected by United States National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during the summer of 1997.This sound was nicknamed as Bloop by
scientists.
It was strange and mysterious , as the loud sound
with low frequency was picked at stations which were immersed and over 5000 km
away from each other . NOAA used acoustic
hydrophone array in the Pacific ocean originally developed by the US Navy to
track Russian submarines . Bloop was heard on multiple sensors. The sound
appeared to be somewhere around 50° S 100° W. Initially NOAA believed
that sound matches the profile of a living animal,but
no known animal could have produced this sound as
the range of sound produced would have to
be many times larger than the largest whale.
Bloop [Recording] .
Some people linked Bloop with gaint sea monster
, an unknown animal which created these ultra - low frequency underwater sound that elevated it to level of a great unsolved mystery. The actual origination of the sound is unknown and remains
a mystery to this day although it is suspected to be biological in origin.
However, NOAA now thinks the sound never came
from any animal, it believes that noise was from the cracking of ice as it
breaks apart in the Antarctic when ice quakes hit . So the idea of some sort of
colossal animal making the noises that were loud enough to be heard all over
the Pacific was fantasy and not science.
NOAA claims that Bloop signals were similar to
ice cracking that created natural echoes.Every year there are thousands of
ice quakes which happen when glaciers crack and fall into the ocean. These
sounds were all very alike in character to the Bloop itself .Because of that, it
makes it particularly unlikely the sound was made by any kind of animal.
The deep oceans of the world are still for the
most part uncharted by human beings. It has been declared that there is a lot
out there that humans do not know about the deep oceans.
One scientist who works for NOAA doesn't
believe in the ice quake theory and still stands behind the unknown animal
theory. When it was said and done, the Bloop sound has not actually been
completely 100 percent solved, and all the chatter about icebergs remains
inconclusive when all is said and done. It does remain the chosen scientific answer
at this time but the real mystery continues.
Honestly, at this point, it's really nice
to know that oceans have seriously hardcore
mysteries alive!!
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