The Deep Ocean Noises We Still Can’t Identify

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Credits:
Narrator: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault
Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski

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[achristiananarchist]

I was a sonar tech in the navy and I always liked just sitting in there with the headphones in and listening to ocean biologics. Recently I was watching something on youtube where the sounds shrimp make was played and it was an instant nostalgia bomb because the crackling of shrimp was always the signal that we were about to pull into San Diego bay on our way back from underway periods and deployments. Almost a decade later, I hear that sound in a nature documentary and my lizard brain is still triggered to fire off the shrimp=home response.

[clivematthews]

The ocean is its own world. I love how complex the earth is

[Davethreshold]

I did stereo loudspeaker design for years. The speed of sound through different materials has a lot to do with good sound. For example, to make a Tweeter go higher, some companies are now using DIAMOND. Bowers and Wilkens is now up to 80 KHZ with their Dome Tweeters. The stiffer the material, the higher in frequency it will go before, "breakup." That is when the dome or cone starts to divide into different sub-frequencies, and the response graph takes a dive.🤩

[WaitWhat]

Why do we explore space and not our oceans? Because water pressure is cumulative. The further down we explore, the higher the risk of instant destruction. Space, on the other hand, has a finite stressor; vacuum. The vacuum of space is actually a very stable environment, unlike our oceans.

[benservey]

ocean scientists casually naming sounds like they're Steven King

[lonewolfs]

In water, sound is everything.
No wonder whales are committing suicide because of our ocean-based wind farms.
We're cutting off their communication completely and they can't even think.
Like being held hostage listening to Baby Shark on max volume 24/7, and turning off the cell phone network.

They hear frequencies we cannot. Have we even evaluated wind farms on any level whatsoever as to their impact? How insanely cruel. And what a sad way to die.

[BeastHighlightsOfficial]

Imagine dolphins developing civilisation one day, they’d place microphones 3000 kilometres apart on land
“What’s that sound? The land is noisier than we thought!”
Turns out to be car horns

[pluspiping]

Although we're pretty darn sure The Bloop was caused by ice... Even if The Bloop wasn't a creature... I still like the "cryptid" designs people invent for it, as if the design could be a mascot for Weird Ocean Sounds.

[Heyheyrayeraye]

The thought of being really deep under the ocean absolutely terrifies me. I think I would spontaneously rise from a coma if someone tried to put me in a submarine. 😂

[Vinny__]

I love how early in the video there’s an element of mystery and unexplainability and as the video goes on, more and more of my questions are answered. Well done, super engaging and though provoking.

[jonathanrattanathongxay]

Do the insane biology of: The Blue Whale.

[tmorningstar]

Gave me the legitimate creeps the way all deep sea stuff does, I really enjoyed it and learned a lot!

[lasercraft]

Its so funny and yet so dumb how so many Youtubers, online influencers, and news articles take mysterious sounds like the Bloop and just try to run with them, saying it could be caused by some massive underwater creature... And conveniently leave out the little detail of the sound itself being sped up almost 20 times its normal speed. XD

It's refreshing to see channels like this actually approach it from a realistic and objective standpoint instead of trying to hype it up as some supernatural phenomenon.

[hariganeshbabu]

Love your work! Keep doing what you love!

[divemasterzach]

The whale sounds were eventually figured out. The documentary 52 blue does an excellent job capturing the story of discovering the origin of this sound.

[MJAY_NFFC]

Absolutely love her voice, her accent, the way she pronounces words ♥️ x

[geekdivaherself]

The Upsweep sounds like my tinnitus, only lower-pitched.

[alexlandherr]

This brings to mind the sonar operator in “The Hunt for Red October” and the “magma displacements”.

[crossbonesI]

We will spend so much exploring outer space. When we have an entire ocean to discover.

[RidireOiche]

If employed in less populated and seldom trafficked coastal areas, might that recording of welcoming reef sounds be used to attract coral larvae to an specific area or areas forming new reefs over decades and generating new aquatic environments conducive to improving life for both land and sea creatures?