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DatasetsBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsNOAA PMEL example recordings and spectrograms of the named sounds
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NOAA PMEL example recordings and spectrograms of the named sounds

Public information, free to redistribute with credit to the NOAA PMEL Acoustics Program. The clips are short, time-compressed excerpts; slowing them by the stated factor restores the original time base and frequencies. They support spectral comparison with modern labelled recordings but not location, since each is a single channel. Sample rates and original durations are not stated and should be r

Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsVersion 1.0Licence public-domainUpdated 26 Oct 2026

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