Scientists Find Real Creature Behind "The Bloop"

the loudest underwater sound ever recorded by humans has remained a mystery for over two decades the so-called bloop rumbled louder than a blue whale ever could but it was too overpowering to match any current living creature or at least one that we knew of experts and the general public threw out all kinds of ideas but it could only point to one thing something underwater was moving around something authorities had never seen before signs pointed to giant undiscovered sea creatures but years later we've finally been able to solve the puzzle [Music] prior to 1997 we'd recorded the sounds of many underwater creatures large and small we thought we knew what lay beneath the surface until one instant changed our perceptions entirely it was called the bloop and before we get stuck into it we'll show you exactly what it sounds like what you just heard was the original one minute long Rumble sped up sixteen times if you're scratching your head trying to figure out what that was that's exactly how the general public and the analyzing experts reacted full of confusion the sound was heard in the Pacific Ocean and traced back to an underwater area west of Chile's southern coast so essentially the middle of nowhere in the ocean its discovery was accidental as well scientists were simply searching for underwater volcanoes when they came across the inexplicable sound what made this sound so fascinating is that it wasn't just picked up by one underwater microphone known as a hydrophone but to space around 3100 miles apart around 5,000 kilometers for the low-frequency sound to travel such an enormous range it was unheard of while trying to decipher what the source actually was authorities matched similarities in the bloop with the cries of giant creatures like the blue whale the largest known underwater animal at a maximum recorded weight of 173 tons make no mistake the call of the blue whale is loud in fact at 188 decibels it's louder than a jet engine which taps out at 140 decibels that being said not even the call of a blue whale is loud enough to be picked up on hydrophones spread out that far apart from one another so being the loudest underwater sound ever recorded it left the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA for short absolutely baffled and for close to 20 years they still weren't able to pinpoint where the sound came from initially the NOAA which has been the chief organization responsible for this discovery and its investigation threw around all kinds of theories and when they officially announced that the sound wasn't man-made declaring it as possibly biological the rumor mill began to churn even more since the rumble had to have been produced by something larger than a blue whale people immediately dropped the idea of an aquatic dinosaur while not technically dinosaurs but large swimming reptiles instead will stick with the name aquatic dinosaur for now since that's become the common although inaccurate term back in the Jurassic period there were a number of underwater beasts that lurked under the surface we had the plesiosaur switch could grow up to fifty feet or 15 meters the Natha soars which were long necked long tailed fish eating reptiles about 20 feet or 6 meters long and the Mosasaurus sharped toothed carnivores that would measure up to 60 feet around 18 meters even if these creatures still existed it would have been highly unlikely that their cries would have been heard because even at their intimidating size the aquatic dinosaurs are still dwarfed by the largest of blue whales another theory thrown around was the Megalodon the largest shark ever documented perhaps this oceanic beast didn't go extinct after all perhaps it was the reason we've been so perplexed by the bloop that's what plenty of people were saying and since the male's could grow to 14 point three meters or around 47 feet and females 17 metres or 58 feet the idea wasn't without merit here's the major issue though sharks don't actually have a sound making organ they slip through the ocean and ghost-like silence some even turn fiction thinking that the bloop source was Cthulhu the mythical monster with a squid face from HP Lovecraft's book Call of Cthulhu it's not as crazy as it might sound since the bloop was recorded just 1500 kilometers from the place where the Cthulhu monster first emerged in Lovecraft story all these suggestions whether realistic or not were based on past creatures or ideas of course there were some people who thought the bloop came from something completely new and undiscovered something unlike anything we'd ever seen before at all you might be thinking that this all just reeks of the nonsense that it's nothing more than fan theories and conspiracies in truth that's not the case at all because the leading experts in the field backed up some of these wild claims two men dr. Robert dziak the manager of the acoustic program for NOAA and Christopher Fox the chief scientist of the acoustic monitoring project of the Pacific Marine Environmental lab each critical members of study had plenty to say about the ongoing mystery Robert dziak came out and said if it's a ship or a whale when it makes a sound in the ocean it isn't big enough to be recorded all the way across the Pacific but this sound was recorded on many hydrophones so it stood out in our mind as being something unique he even floated around the idea that the rumble came from a giant squid as for Fox well he was also rather clueless he knew that it wasn't man-made like a submarine or a torpedo echo and was convinced that it couldn't have been a volcano eruption or an earthquake either in his own words to produce a low frequency you have to be something big and we understood when we looked at the volume of the sound certainly it was much louder than the loudest animal sound that we're aware of the mystery plagues doctor Fox so much that he even took the recording to the US military to see if it was some sort of secret technology that he didn't know about but he walked away without finding any answers for all these experts knew they had discovered a monster clearly the bloop raised an enormous amount of questions but it's not hard to see why for all we know it could have been an undiscovered sea creature a giant squid like we'd never seen before or even the reemergence of an ancient reptilian Beast we just don't know and here's why as humans we have only explored about 5% of the world's oceans there's still so much left out there that we are completely oblivious towards if we can find the goblin shark Dumbo octopus frilled shark and Barrel lie down in the ominous depths of the Marianas Trench who knows what else could be swimming around in the uncharted waters plus it's certainly not unheard of for scientists to discover new mammoth size creatures back in 2012 a new species of whale was discovered after a mother and her calf washed up onto a New Zealand beach the spade toothed whale which until that point was only known based on miscellaneous skulls and jaw bones that washed ashore eight years prior to that in 2004 the first-ever video footage of a giant squid was recorded off the coast of Japan and earlier in 2019 one was recorded in the pitch-black waters of the Gulf of Mexico officially US waters some 759 meters or 2,500 feet below the surface even animal planet got onboard they made a documentary called mermaids which used the bloop sound as evidence for the existence of mermaids while the NOAA refuted this it goes to show that the theories had all but been accepted as fact while all this mystery had circulated for years it seems as though finally scientists can confirm what actually happened the bloop was not an aquatic dinosaur or nor a new species in reality it wasn't even an animal at all from 2005 until 2010 the NOAA conducted an underwater survey of the Bransfield Strait and Drake Passage areas around the north tip of Antarctica the survey found a dominant source of loud low-frequency sound in the area the echoes of ice violently breaking and cracking with tens of thousands of these so-called ice quakes every year scientists could reasonably assume that this was in fact what caused the famous bloop back in 1997 dr. Robert dziak said himself the ice calving off glaciers into the ocean showed signals very similar in character to the bloop that being said the case remains peppered with a hint of mystery as dr. dziak has entirely dismissed the idea that the sound still could have been an animal labeling it merely extremely unlikely but not out of the question he was also under the impression that many were misled by the sound when it was played at fast forwarded motion that makes it sound like an animal vocalization of some sort however when the sound is played in real time it has more of a quake sound to it similar to thunder as you can see in this bird's eye time-lapse the Antarctic ice is moving rapidly with ice cracks as large as 20 kilometers forming if you've heard an ice cube crack when submerged in water imagine that sound only with an ice cube millions and millions of times larger and considering that there's almost 14 million square kilometers of ice down there about 5.4 million square miles cracks happen all the time with global warming largely upon us does that mean that there's potential for more bloops to be heard around the corner absolutely according to Scientific American we've seen 252 Giga tons of ice crack tumble and melt every year over the last decade and with all that ice dumped into the ocean the global sea levels have increased by 14 millimeters since 1979 that might not seem like a lot but if the entirety of Antarctica were to melt sea levels would rise by about 61 meters or 200 feet with so much crumbling over the years it should come as no surprise that the blue isn't the only curious sound that scientists have heard in 1999 the NOAA recorded what they called the Julia a weird noise that mimicked someone cooing or whining in 1997 they heard the so called train sound a steady hum which echoed like the rub of train wheels against train tracks that one was declared the result of an iceberg dragging its keel along the ocean floor finally the researchers also heard upsweep and slowed down the latter had a frequency that as per its name slowed down to a screeching halt after a matter of seven minutes this was linked to a drifting iceberg hitting the seafloor and skidding to a halt the up sweep on the other hand which sounded like the scratching of branches against a window was heard in 1991 multiple times and is yet to have a credible explanation alas the saga of underwater mysteries never ends that's all for the mystery of the bloop do you think there's more to the story that they're not telling us let us know in the comments make sure to like this video subscribe to the richest and join our notification squad thanks for watching and we'll see you next time

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Keywords: the bloop, bloop sound, underwater, mystery, unsolved mystery, mysterious underwater sound, kraken, mariana trench, megaladon, antartic, ice, ice melt, global warming, greta, richest, the richest

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Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 23 2019