The Bloop!

[Rudenoodle]

The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.

Analysis
The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W (South American southwest coast), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines. According to the NOAA description, it "rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km." Though it matches the audio profile of a living creature, there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale, according to scientists who have studied the phenomenon.

So, the bloop (50°S 100°W? / ?-50, -100) is near Point Nemo, an oceanic pole of inaccessibility (48°50?S 123°20?W? / ?-48.833, -123.333).


In popular culture
Because the Bloop noise originated near the location of the fictional sunken city of R'lyeh from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", the Bloop has been linked to Cthulhu by Lovecraft fans.[2] In the alternate reality game promoting the movie, the Bloop was also linked to the monster from Cloverfield[3] The Bloop was seen in The Loch by Steve Alten as the call of an undiscovered species of giant eel,[4] as well as in Frank Schätzing's novel The Swarm as the speech of the intelligent species, the Yrr.[5]. The title track from Dntel's 2001 album Life Is Full of Possibilities repeats a sample of the Bloop sound set to music.
from wiki

Has anyone heard of any new developments in this? I find it very interesting.

[CapnG]

F'Tang!

[Tommy Allison]

That's F'Tagn.

[CapnG]

Originally Posted by Tommy Allison

That's F'Tagn.

I stand corrected. Does that mean I won't be eaten first now? I hate wating...

[Raevenskye]

Originally Posted by CapnG

I stand corrected. Does that mean I won't be eaten first now? I hate wating...

hush now....Ctulie has enough tentacles for all....

[Brian Now]

I remember this. You can listen at the links below, though the sound has been speeded up 16X. I remember hearing the original recording a long time ago and it moan or deep whale sound slowly increasing in pitch I think.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explor...ml#Anchor-1515

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acous...nds/bloop.html

[Raevenskye]

i think i've heard that sound in the bathtub before lol! my saltwater fishtank sometimes does this, tho there's nothing "bloopie" in there....maybe it's just a natural thing

[Tommy Allison]

As a major Lovecraft Fan, I'm into this Bloop thing. It would be really cool if there was some kind of netherworldly creatures living on the bottom of the ocean, just waiting to rise.

The down side though, is that the coastal cities will get eaten up first. I thank God I live in the middle of the continent.