# The Bloop was an ice sound of another kind, such as calving from an ice shelf or a collision between bergs,…

> Still possible: The Bloop was an ice sound of another kind, such as calving from an ice shelf or a collision between bergs, rather than an iceberg…

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Answer · Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds

# The Bloop was an ice sound of another kind, such as calving from an ice shelf or a collision between bergs,…

The Bloop was an ice sound of another kind, such as calving from an ice shelf or a collision between bergs, rather than an iceberg cracking in open water.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionDeduced0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The recomputed bearing points to an ice-shelf front or a dense berg field.
- The spectrum is closer to calving or collision recordings than to open-water breakup.

## What would rule it out

- A best match to open-water breakup icequakes.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[NOAA's Ocean Service describes it as an iceberg breaking away from an Antarctic glacier.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/noaa-ocean-sounds/evidence/EVD0D9C7JDE0412/noaas-ocean-service-describes-it-as-an-iceberg-breaking-away)

Suggestive

FOR

[PMEL's comparison sounds include calving and iceberg harmonic tremor as well as icequakes.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/noaa-ocean-sounds/evidence/EVD0D9C7JN83CD8/pmels-comparison-sounds-include-calving-and-iceberg-harmonic)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Was the Bloop an icequake, and from which iceberg?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/noaa-ocean-sounds/questions/QST0D9C7CHY4R4M/was-the-bloop-an-icequake-and-from-which-iceberg)

Part of [What made the loud unidentified sounds recorded by NOAA's Pacific hydrophones in the 1990s?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/noaa-ocean-sounds/questions/QST0D9C7CA41BJB/what-made-the-loud-unidentified-sounds-recorded-by-noaas)

Most likelyThe Bloop was one or more icequakes from a large iceberg cracking somewhere between Bransfield Strait and the…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The Bloop was an ice sound of another kind, such as calving from an ice shelf or a collision between bergs,… [Answer ANS0D9C7J5M4BVS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D9C7J5M4BVS
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