"The Bloop," according to the ever-dependable Wikipedia, is an "ultra-low frequency and 
extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997." The sound's source, mysteriously, still remains unknown.
extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997." The sound's source, mysteriously, still remains unknown. The Bloop was detected by equipment designed to monitor Russian submarines - and was recorded by multiple listening devices as far as 5,000 km apart. Scientists have noted that while The Bloop's audio profile does "resemble that of a living creature," it is several times louder than the loudest known biological sound (which, incidentally, is made by the blue whale - the largest known aquatic animal).
So what produced The Bloop? An impossibly large whale? Otherwise-undetected geological activity on the ocean floor? A secret Russian weapon? Speculation abounds, and some, turning to the work of author H.P. Lovecraft, have offered a more controversial explanation: Cthulhu. BloopWatch.org points out the similarities to the famous creature of the Lovecraft mythos:
So what produced The Bloop? An impossibly large whale? Otherwise-undetected geological activity on the ocean floor? A secret Russian weapon? Speculation abounds, and some, turning to the work of author H.P. Lovecraft, have offered a more controversial explanation: Cthulhu. BloopWatch.org points out the similarities to the famous creature of the Lovecraft mythos:
Whatever made it, you can listen to The Bloop yourself here. Personally, this whole thing gives me chills. The uncharted depths of the ocean are a scary, mysterious place.The sound is believed to be coming roughly from 50oS; 100oW. After reading that, I wondered how close that was to the coordinates given in "The Call of Cthulhu". Allow me to quote: "Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen's command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude l23°43', come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror - the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, that was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars."Gotta love it!
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Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!