Bloop
As Bloop one was sound named that several times in the summer of 1997 by sonar in the Pacific Ocean has been registered and recorded. The source of this noise is unknown, the place of origin is west of South America in the range of 50 ° S, 100 ° W suspected.
The noise was first heard through the equipment of the US Navy's Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array , which was originally built to locate Soviet submarines .
The scientists who originally studied the phenomenon speculated that it most closely related to the sounds of an animal. However, to date no organism is known that can produce a sound of this strength and range. They therefore assumed a very large animal that would have to be larger than all known whales and squids .
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suspects that the noise was caused by cracking and the subsequent breaking of a large iceberg . Similar noises could be assigned to the disintegration of iceberg A53a near South Georgia in early 2008 . To date, however, it is not completely clear who or what ultimately caused the noise, as it has never been heard again.
Others
Since the coordinates of the recording site are about 2000 km west of the fictional underwater ruined city of R'lyeh , described by HP Lovecraft in 1926 , in which Cthulhu is said to rest, the sound of Lovecraft fans is attributed with a wink to this gigantic cephalopod-like god.
Web links
- Tuning in to a deep sea monster , CNN, June 13, 2002
- "Bloop" - NOAA Vents Program for Acoustic Monitoring (with wav file and spectrogram)
- Audio recordings of various deep-sea noises, including the bloop
Individual evidence
- ↑ 'The Bloop': The loudest underwater sound recorded hasn't been completely explained. In: www.stuff.co.nz. October 19, 2017, accessed August 20, 2019 .