The Bloop: A Mysterious Sound from the Deep Ocean | NOAA SOSUS

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.


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[spongebobcoffin]

Scientists are saying that it was just ice burgs breaking, so I’m guessing it was the squirrel from ice age who created the bloop

[TheWelchProductions]

It was Spongebob and Patrick blowing bubbles again.

[thebananarepublic]

*"Dectecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region, are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?*

[sourtm]

I really want to live long enough to see alot more of the ocean discovered, it's such a fascinating thing learning about the deepest spots and stuff. Also even though it's probably unlikely, maybe find some crashed planes and ships that we haven't found yet. Although ships and planes can only last so long under things like water pressure, sand, bacteria, etc.

[justchlchlstopanimaltestin]

Imagine you peacefully swimming in the ocean and hear that noise

[nicoleechevarria]

Obviously someone is mowing their grass underwater.

[Brainwave]

Cthulhu: _"I send the humans a warning that I am awaking soon, AND THEY CALL IT THE FUCKING BLOOP?!"_

[JayDonagh]

Doesn't matter what the hell this is. Iceberg, big scary creature, aliens, volcanoes. We can all agree that this sound is disturbing as shit.

[superscaryguy]

Godzilla is having a bad case of diarrhea.

[tubbieschannel]

Cthulhu be like : hmm why not send them something scary? **BLOOP**

[Handle]

1:20 scared me. I'm not sure if its just the effects of the microphone but that sounds like a glitched noise. Freaking terrifying. I'm even more terrified that none of these have been recorded since. So weird

[kesahrees]

damn chill it's just sandy working on some science shit

[valeriepassman]

Earth:*queefs*
People: LMAO WTF WAS THAT BLOOP SOUND??!!

[zenozeam]

Anyone else here from a Instagram thread?

[GojiCenter]

Yeaaa no, that thing is definitely alive...

[ThisGalaxyCat]

This is the sound of my stomach getting hungry

[crowrosive]

though its skeptically said that this is an  iceberg scrapping on the sea floor I like to believe there is something in the ocean we've not encountered before, after all the blue whale is the largest mammal to ever live and how often to you see them?

[shadic]

« Pictured above is a visual representation of a loud and unusual sound »
Ah yes, I too enjoy looking at sounds and hearing pictures

[jessica]

Since I'm not near an ocean, this sound is kind of relaxing. I'd feel differently if I were in or near an ocean though.

[riceonmyneckasmr]

arabic speakers what is so funny about this please i want to know