What is the bloop?

NOAA National Ocean Service, n.d.. NOAA Ocean Facts (oceanservice.noaa.gov).

NOAA's public explainer. Says the 1997 sound was recorded on hydrophones more than 3,219 km apart across the Pacific, lists the theories that circulated (military exercises, ship engines, winches, giant squid, whales, unknown animals), and states that PMEL researchers deploying hydrophones closer to Antarctica found in 2005 that it was an icequake.

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NOAA's institutional summary, including the 2005 date it gives for the attribution.

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At least one of the sounds came from human activity (military exercises, ships, winches or other machinery).

Answer

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NOAA's Ocean Service describes it as an iceberg breaking away from an Antarctic glacier.

Evidence

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PMEL identifies the Bloop as an icequake, as dated by NOAA's Ocean Service

EVT

The Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds

The mystery article

MYS

Was the Bloop an icequake, and from which iceberg?

Question

QST

Cite it

NOAA National Ocean Service (n.d.). What is the bloop?. NOAA Ocean Facts (oceanservice.noaa.gov). https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bloop.html

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. “What is the bloop?.” NOAA Ocean Facts (oceanservice.noaa.gov) (n.d.).