The Bloop mystery has been solved: it was never a giant sea monster
Submitted by rodomskh on Thu, 11/29/2012 - 12:36pm
In 1997, the Bloop was heard on hydrophones across the Pacific. It was a loud, ultra-low frequency sound that was heard at listening stations underwater over 5,000km apart, and one of many mysterious noises picked up by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Several articles in the years that followed popularised one suggestion that the Bloop might have been the sound of an unknown animal due to the "organic" nature of the noise, a theory that elevated the Bloop to the level of a great unsolved mystery.
Robert Dziak, CIMRS' seismologist, explains in Wired.co.UK magazine.