The Loudest Underwater Sound Ever Recorded

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  • Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
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    The ocean is wide, vast, and terrifying. But for the last 40 years, researchers around the world have been recording audio from hydrophones to try to understand it better. And we've learned a lot. But a surprising number of sounds have been recorded that defy explanation. Here are some of the most mysterious.
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    TIMESTAMPS
    0:00 - Intro
    2:48 - Hydrophones
    4:01 - The Bloop
    5:17 - Bloop Theories
    7:50 - The Bloop Mystery Solved
    8:58 - Other Unexplained Sea Sounds
    13:54 - Sponsor - Henson Shaving
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  • @joescott
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    @dt843 Год назад +1035

    I know you probably won't see this. But i'm currently 17, i've been watching you since i was 12, and you've helped me get through a lot of things. Whenever you don't post anything i actually watch a lot of your old or past videos, and i go to sleep while listening to your videos even though i've seen them a million times already. I just wanted to let you know that there are people out there who absolutely love you, and there are people who's lives have been influenced by you. I hope that one day i can meet you and let you know in person how much you have helped me

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  • @robot_spider
    @robot_spider Год назад +471

    Growing up on a lake in Northern Michigan, my first thought when I heard the bloop was "Sounds like ice cracking on the lake". When the ice is getting thicker (4"-6" of ice depth), the expansion of the ice causes huge cracks to relieve the stresses that build up. They have a weird organic sound to them. When the ice is thin,

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Год назад +41

      You grew up on a lake? Mermaid? Or: I'm picturing a little crab typing away on a cell phone dropped from a boat...

    • @elio7610
      @elio7610 Год назад +11

      Raft house

    • @Robbiebert14
      @Robbiebert14 Год назад +14

      Oh man it's so freaking fun!! It sounds wild!! You almost have to be there to believe it

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk Год назад +16

      Awww the poor souls who have never experienced the outdoors other than taking out the garbage.

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk Год назад +6

      @@squirlmy It's English dontcha know kinda weird.

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks Год назад +774

    Great video, great topic, and fun samples to listen to

  • @DanRyanCarter
    @DanRyanCarter Год назад +805

    Okay but the 'people living secretly in the attic' thing has happened and it's absolutely terrifying 🙅🏻

    • @alastairward2774
      @alastairward2774 Год назад

      Especially the ones who came out and murdered people.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +230

      Yeah there’s some videos out there of people catching those guys on security cameras. Freaky as hell.

    • @Sambroke
      @Sambroke Год назад +125

      @@joescott I'm in your attic

    • @mathieuleader8601
      @mathieuleader8601 Год назад +40

      Hugo is fed a bucket of fisheads every weeks

    • @selfproclaimednobody4614
      @selfproclaimednobody4614 Год назад +28

      The people under the stairs are more worser...

  • @tnd5080
    @tnd5080 Год назад +377

    Who ever made the names for the sounds needs a award 🥇

  • @xaviergordillo9712
    @xaviergordillo9712 Год назад +97

    One day I was walking my dog next to a frozen lake... and suddenly a very deep, very loud sound "appears". I wouldn't say that I "hear" it... to be more exact... I would say that I "felt" it... I felt it inside me and everywhere. Of course that left me in shock... I had never heard anything like this in my life... and I have never heard it again. I am not able to express the depth of that sound. It was like being in a movie. I didn't imagine it because my dog listen it too.
    I'm not sure what I heard... but I think what happened is that the lake was thawing... and I think what produced the sound was the entire surface of the lake descending a few cm and reverberating like a gigantic drum. Nature is really amazing

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 Год назад +6

      I'd love to hear -- or feel -- something like that! :D

    • @SecondLifeTravels1
      @SecondLifeTravels1 Год назад +2

      Sounds like some part of the ice cracked!

    • @audreymuzingo933
      @audreymuzingo933 Год назад +6

      Or there was a sasquatch nearby (they use infrasound).
      Sorry, couldn't resist.
      Kinda sorry, kinda serious.

    • @duchuynhvuong1733
      @duchuynhvuong1733 Год назад

      ok

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 Год назад

      Warmer fluids dissolve fewer gases, could have been a release of gas under the ice as the water warms. Definitely would need more information to know for certain.

  • @mikebauer6917
    @mikebauer6917 Год назад +114

    If you’ve ever been on a large frozen lake (or sea ice) you’ll know that shifting ice makes loud sounds something like huge metal wires twanging.

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter Год назад +7

      Yes and even booming sounds. I've heard some crazy sounds on Lake Michigan when ice fishing during a small thaw and even the large river that runs through our town makes very loud noises sometimes that I can hear from a half mile away and people have reported it to the police not knowing what it was. The river is very deep here and has very strong currents that are probably the cause.

    • @brianforman6093
      @brianforman6093 Год назад +3

      I’ve heard that twanging sound

    • @Mswords
      @Mswords Год назад +1

      Not going to lie, I though you said
      "shi💩💩ing ice." I was so confused. I think I need a nap.

  • @dufuspuncher6969
    @dufuspuncher6969 Год назад +55

    A big ol thing in the ocean farted... Scientists baffled

  • @Razorfiend
    @Razorfiend Год назад +129

    I love that you used Neil Breen as the stranger in the attic. Finding him up there would be both terrifying and for some reason, unsurprising.

    • @douglasboyle6544
      @douglasboyle6544 Год назад +20

      Exactly what I thought. That's a totally Neil Breen thing, he'd be up there with a bunch of satellite dishes and cans of tuna.

    • @joescott
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      He'd make too much noise breaking all those computers.

    • @81sorted
      @81sorted Год назад +6

      #eyesonbreen

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      I can’t believe it. I can believe you committed a Neil Breen reference in my garage next to my Ferrari.

    • @H-Man1
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      Sometimes when I'm laying in bed, I hear him drop a tuna can up there.

  • @johnopalko5223
    @johnopalko5223 Год назад +6

    Thank you for mentioning Cthulhu. As a lifelong fan of Lovecraft, Cthulhu has always been my tongue-in-cheek explanation for anything weird. Phnglui w'gah nagl fhtagn.

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      The Fungi from Yuggoth are my usual joke involving Pluto. Talk about the edge of the universe also reminds me of Yog-Sothoth.

  • @briandoolittle3422
    @briandoolittle3422 Год назад +6

    The lonely whale reminds me of Bruiser the Elk. On Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound in Washington State, theres a single Elk named Bruiser. Elk are not native to the island, so he's the only one on it. Hes been there about 10 years, after swimming across the Sound to the island. You can occasionally hear him bugling during mating season. People have reported him destroying their clotheslines.

  • @Anonymous-pb2pg
    @Anonymous-pb2pg Год назад +50

    i love that after so long you still keep the cephalopod joke running

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      @MeganVictoriaKearns Год назад +3

      Definitely an awesome topic to reference as often as possible. They're some of the most incredible creatures out there.

    • @margauxf4321
      @margauxf4321 Год назад +2

      I loved that video 😅

  • @Chrismas815
    @Chrismas815 Год назад +48

    Thank God you posted, I was stuck watching old Joe Scott videos

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      More stuff on the way. 😉

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      @@joescott till then I'll keep watching old videos 😂

    • @dannytunz6993
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      ​@Joe Scott there is a massive RUclips audience for quality and thought provoking content on paleoanthrropology I would love to see you make some videos on the subject and see what your ideas about the new studies

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Год назад +1

      IDK, do you have statistics on how large the audience is? Because, it sounds like wishful thinking to me. Can you list some recent discoveries?

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      @@squirlmy the recent homo naledi papers may have completely upended decades of established thought on the subject... and essentially all of our models are pure conjecture so it's a ripe field for intrigue

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    I'm learning so much from this channel and I'm not even done with high school yet. I've learned things that I haven't even heard from school books. Keep on teaching!

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      Keep on learning! ;)

  • @WhispyWoods.
    @WhispyWoods. Год назад +21

    You can’t deny it’s bloopiness ❤️

  • @robsquared2
    @robsquared2 Год назад +17

    I'm glad we know what the bloop is. I await the blarp.

  • @jmcurleypoker
    @jmcurleypoker Год назад +93

    I love this channel. Always learn something new with these videos. Like the sounds scientists make when they’re surprised.

  • @makerspace533
    @makerspace533 Год назад +2

    In the 1960s, the US military set up a huge underwater surveillance system to track submarines, ours and theirs. In 1968 a soviet submarine had an onboard explosion which sank the submarine. The US knew precisely where the sub was located, it turned out the soviets knew nothing. The Glomar Explorer was build ostensibly to explore for undersea mining, but actually was to recover the missing soviet submarine.

    • @rodchallis8031
      @rodchallis8031 Год назад

      Back in the before times, I used to read the colour comics section of our weekend paper. On the back page there was a feature dedicated to sciency stuff. The Glomar Explorer was featured and it always stuck in my head. Knowing how security agencies use P.R. companies etc., to plant "news" from time to time, after I found out the true purpose of the Glomar Explorer, I wondered if that feature was a CIA plant.

  • @CaptainMisery86
    @CaptainMisery86 Год назад +24

    That bloop was the sound of a wormhole opening and closing real quick. An alien space craft was aiming for the upper atmosphere, but they fudged the coordinates and ended up warping in to the ocean.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +11

      Poor, wet aliens.

    • @Geolaminar
      @Geolaminar Год назад

      Yet another alien invasion, thwarted by delta P

    • @jookya2
      @jookya2 Год назад

      they meant to go directly to the water. Why else would they come to such a wet planet?

  • @simonwilczynski5863
    @simonwilczynski5863 Год назад +42

    Sounds like an air bubble escaping the sea floor.

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Год назад +7

      Could be methane, which would be pretty bad for global warming.

    • @RemoWilliams1227
      @RemoWilliams1227 Год назад

      That's what I thought

    • @Souchi-ito
      @Souchi-ito Год назад +2

      Timestamp: 5:01

    • @tommydplayskeys
      @tommydplayskeys Год назад +1

      There were definitely some 'fart in a bath' sounds in this vid

    • @biazacha
      @biazacha Год назад

      Yep, gas scraping some seafloor seismic activity is my best guess

  • @swordmonkey6635
    @swordmonkey6635 Год назад +75

    When looking for a solution to mysterious underwater sounds, the best method is to use Occam's Razor; which in this case leads to the answer that it's an interdimensional city phasing back into our spacetime and the pressure of the displaced water causes the noise. 😛

    • @Nitephall
      @Nitephall Год назад +4

      Or maybe it's an underwater Wakanda. The shield failed and the ocean claimed the city.

    • @swordmonkey6635
      @swordmonkey6635 Год назад +2

      @@Nitephall It's a wild held fact that underwater Wakanda sounds more like a kazoo or slide whistle. 😛

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +7

      Obviously

    • @mildredfippen5396
      @mildredfippen5396 Год назад

      Why not?

  • @Vaaluin
    @Vaaluin Год назад +28

    Life has been a bit rough for awhile now and having your weekly 15 minutes of chatting helps a ton. Seeing a new vid in my subscriptions today brought me so much comfort.

    • @moniqueengleman873
      @moniqueengleman873 Год назад +2

      Hang in there. I promise Life is so worth it.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +8

      Sorry you've had a rough time. Happens to all of us. And I'm glad my banter has helped - I hope you find a lot more things to give you joy.

  • @hach6312
    @hach6312 Год назад +3

    I think the cephalopod script has been heralded like 6 times since that video came out and it never ceases to be funny

  • @thatsnailguy
    @thatsnailguy Год назад +14

    1997 seems like a good year for several hydrophonic mysteries. I wonder why that year seems like an outlier with it's number of unidentified recordings. Perhaps the bloop brought more attention to that year's recordings.

    • @kstricl
      @kstricl Год назад +5

      Looks like the initial deployment was may 1996. Likely they have had better success tracking and identifying sounds after due to calibration and better algorithms.

    • @drelocs2878
      @drelocs2878 Год назад

      Or purposely hiding them don’t forget. 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @devinodonnell
    @devinodonnell Год назад +22

    Once again, great video, great topic, and fun samples to listen to. :D

  • @antonnym214
    @antonnym214 Год назад +3

    This is a very entertaining and thoughtful video. Thank you! One helpful grammar tip: Use "farther" for distance, as in "Sound waves travel farther in water than they do in air." Use "further" for just about everything else. As in: "These night courses will further my criminology education." Or "The further I get into this story, the more confused I become." All good wishes.

  • @prawnmikus
    @prawnmikus Год назад +41

    The sounds that planets make are kind of terrifying. Maybe you can do a vid on that :)

    • @bloodyneptune
      @bloodyneptune Год назад +10

      Yeah, the first time I 'heard' Saturn I thought "huh, so that's where hell is"

    • @margauxf4321
      @margauxf4321 Год назад +2

      I have never heard that and I'm 100% terrified 😳

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +9

      I feel like... I have?
      I think I covered that in an old, old vid. Might be a fun topic to resurrect.

    • @prawnmikus
      @prawnmikus Год назад +3

      @@joescott It probably came from my subconscious then. Been with you for a long time on this wild ride. Yes, a revisit for sure. That stuff is so creepy and cool.

  • @dillonrostorfer202
    @dillonrostorfer202 Год назад +25

    I found your channel a few weeks ago and I love it! Your ability to explain things in such an easy to understand and concise manner is amazing!

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns Год назад

      Welcome! I've been here about 3 months. I've watched about 70% or so of the older videos. Joe's a great communicator. Very funny too. You're going to learn a lot!

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +1

      Thanks! Glad you're here!

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Год назад

      I may be closer to 3 years (probably longer?), but his humor hasn't changed while his videos have improved.

  • @abbacchio5649
    @abbacchio5649 Год назад +24

    hi joe! thank you for always accompanying me through my sleepless nights :)

  • @nomojo1110
    @nomojo1110 Год назад +2

    Obviously "The Whistle" is easily explained. Clearly a cephalopod, dreaming of betters days while watching _Alien_ unplugged its hydro-headphones before reducing the amplifier volume. That's why the hydrophone recorded several moments of the _LV-426_ windstorm.

  • @lmc333
    @lmc333 Год назад +5

    Legend goes that the sound is still going around the ocean to this day, being reverberated and echoed back and forth.

  • @davidjeffery3532
    @davidjeffery3532 Год назад +10

    Another quality video! Love your work :)

  • @kingofflames738
    @kingofflames738 Год назад +8

    After listening to singing ice, I'm convinced this must have been one MASSIVE ice sheet cracking.

  • @marie_h1104
    @marie_h1104 Год назад +7

    This video is fascinating; I thought that it was due to ice but the distance the sound traveled is remarkable!

  • @nadiayorc
    @nadiayorc 10 месяцев назад +1

    the thing I rarely see mentioned whenever the recording is talked about but is in my opinion very important to how it could be perceived is that it (and most other of these sea noises) have been sped up and pitched up by a lot (the bloop is 16 times), the original recording lasted about a minute and ranged from around 10hz to 50hz, which most speakers are incapable of reproducing, half of it is outside the human hearing range, and the rest is just barely within it, if it were possible to perfectly reproduce it would likely just sound/feel like a rumble at it's real pitch/tempo (if played at a safe volume)

  • @jacobdarling4172
    @jacobdarling4172 Год назад +9

    Thank you joe,I’ve greatly enjoyed your videos

  • @gtbkts
    @gtbkts Год назад +4

    Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!!

  • @izaacgavin4903
    @izaacgavin4903 Год назад +4

    I just wanted to let you know joe that your videos always lighten up my day💪🏼

  • @mimidestiny1
    @mimidestiny1 Год назад +6

    Hello Joe! I am really curious about the sounds of the ocean during the pandemic when all the shipping traffic was quiet. I tried to attempt to research this but hit a bunch of dead ends.

  • @SooprTruffaut
    @SooprTruffaut Год назад +22

    Very curious and interesting, as per usual!
    I have a question though: a lot of the sounds you mention were first recorded in 1997. Was that the year the array was built across the sea floor or was that just a particularly terrifying period for marine science?
    Keep up the good work!

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +6

      Hehe, I can't say for sure, but I assume there was some change in aggregation or recording around that time.

  • @Nick_Slavik
    @Nick_Slavik Год назад +13

    Anyone else really enjoying the background track Joe has during these vids? Just a really good vibing tune 😎

    • @patrickgrassey2290
      @patrickgrassey2290 Год назад

      Found it distracting... it worked to make me rewatch, for sure.

    • @Nick_Slavik
      @Nick_Slavik Год назад

      @@patrickgrassey2290 I'm enjoying it! I find myself bobbing along to it lol the old tune he had was still great, it kind of reminded me of the Metropolitan Zone from Sonic 2 haha

  • @ericwiese7479
    @ericwiese7479 Год назад

    Great video Joe! Been with you since you were a wee channel, well done, Sir!

  • @MatthewSmith-qd6du
    @MatthewSmith-qd6du Год назад +2

    love that at 6:40 joe used a mtg card (specifically scourge of fleets) to illustrate a giant underwater sea creature,

  • @skywatcher2025
    @skywatcher2025 Год назад +2

    Ok the children's book being written by Richard Moby and William Free is way more effort than was needed and I'm totally here for it.

  • @Rapiddrive1
    @Rapiddrive1 Год назад +7

    I know I've said this before, but some things bear repetition! Joe, you make me laugh out loud more often than just about anyone other than Dave Chappelle. I come for the knowledge, I stay for your humourous takes and delivery on this crazy world/universe. Genuine appreciation for your thoughtful insights delivered so lightly. THANK YOU! Right next to love, the world needs more laughter!

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +1

      Awe, that's awesome, thanks for saying that. :)

  • @rasmusb639
    @rasmusb639 Год назад +1

    Hey Joe. Great video! Since you are at the ocean topics - you should make a video on the baltic sea anomaly!

  • @hansjohannsen6722
    @hansjohannsen6722 Год назад +1

    So cool. I have heard similar bloops on deep big ice. Fun to hear all this . Thanks for sharing

  • @adrianaad6058
    @adrianaad6058 Год назад +16

    The sounds on your video scared my dogs enough so I had to pause and take them outside to brush off the uneasiness. I thought this is scary stuff for humans only, but apparently we're not alone in this. Thank for the video, great work!

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +15

      Sometimes my dogs bark when I'm recording. Then later when I'm editing or playing it back, they'll hear themselves bark and get scared.

  • @paulhaynes8045
    @paulhaynes8045 Год назад +3

    Good to see you back, Joe. Mondays have been a bit odd recently...

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +2

      Lots of big stuff coming in April. ;)

  • @salt-emoji
    @salt-emoji Год назад +2

    2:30 that story is worth telling.
    The team put out buoys with a motion activated camera and bait, one of the buoys disappeared. It was pulled under water, for 2 hours. Before it resurfaced the only evidence is a single photo and a tentacle.

  • @gurpreetdhillon976
    @gurpreetdhillon976 Год назад +1

    Thanks for posting, love and respect ❤❤

  • @Balin_James
    @Balin_James Год назад +9

    Fun fact! Julia has a chorus effect guitar pedal named after it, made by Walrus Audio! I have one and it very much captures the spirit of the Julia sound. It just a LITTLE different than other chorus effects

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +4

      Oh, that's super cool.

  • @MattJDylan
    @MattJDylan Год назад +3

    People estimated that the bloop beast was supposed to be more than 250m big. Now imagine: a population of those, somehow not leaving any sign of their presence apart from that one sound that one time. And let's not start thinking about what does that even eat and all.
    Also, Scott, THANK YOU. The first time I heard the "loneliest whale story" I was almost 30, and CRIED MY EYES OUT FOR HALF AN HOUR and had my mood destroyed for days. Like, I feel like crying right now just remembering it.
    So, having now an explanation with a plausible happy ending for that whale feels like a huge gift.
    Funny enough, I was very sympathetic with its loneliness, but now my austic lonely butt are even more empathetic with that little "odd" dude than before, and I'm just glad that one of us managed to likely find their way to someone who accepts them even if they are a bit "different".
    So, thank you scott for reporting it and heal this "wound" I felt for years the little guy 😂

  • @185MDE
    @185MDE Год назад +1

    I am so happy you included 52 Blue. It's my favorite ocean mystery.

  • @LaurieAnnCurry
    @LaurieAnnCurry Год назад +2

    I’m not the least little bit ashamed at how excited I was to see a new vid! Love me my Joe.

  • @JeepnHeel
    @JeepnHeel Год назад +6

    As someone with severe thalassophobia, I can assure you those sounds are indeed either Cthulhu or giant cannibal spider sharks

  • @devilsadvocate1436
    @devilsadvocate1436 Год назад +4

    The eerie unknown sound must have been C'thulu's mating calls. He's lonesome down there :(

    • @ladymacbethofmtensk896
      @ladymacbethofmtensk896 Год назад

      He waits dreaming until the time when the stars are right, when he will rise from his abyssal tomb, devour his devotees, and subject the rest of humanity to to utter madness before he finally devours them too.

  • @JenFoxworth
    @JenFoxworth Год назад +1

    I love the running joke about Jason, scripts, and Cephalopods. XD

  • @bigounce5004
    @bigounce5004 Год назад +1

    * plays most terrifying sound ever *
    "it's probably just an iceberg"

  • @valiantwarrior4517
    @valiantwarrior4517 Год назад +5

    It’s interesting that I have seen bird spectrograms with patterns very similar to some of these underwater sounds.

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns Год назад +2

      Everything's connected, man. Everything's connected...

    • @larrywest42
      @larrywest42 Год назад

      So.... Undersea dinosaurs?

    • @valiantwarrior4517
      @valiantwarrior4517 Год назад

      @@larrywest42 Wellllll…technically, by scientific definition, the term “dinosaur” only applies to land reptiles during the Mesozoic Era. 🤓

  • @DrSmartassMD
    @DrSmartassMD Год назад +5

    Ocean sounds are beyond terrifying 😳

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns Год назад

      The whole ocean is terrifying! 😢

    • @joescott
      @joescott  Год назад +1

      Nexpo did a great video about fear of the depths.

  • @ditzieluv
    @ditzieluv Год назад +1

    Hi Joe!! 👋 Just wondering if you were able to make the documentary about the Baker Hotel. Would love to hear about it. Love your videos!! Thank you!!

  • @jamesschmames6416
    @jamesschmames6416 Год назад +1

    Considering it sounded similar to when you throw a large rock into water, it seemed obvious to me that it was something large falling into the surface of the water rather than a deep ocean sound.

  • @adambier2415
    @adambier2415 Год назад +9

    A glacier calving is still the most awesome sound I have ever experienced. The sound comes from everywhere.

  • @geoffstrickler
    @geoffstrickler Год назад +9

    Should be able to triangulate it based on timestamps when it was recorded at each hydrophone. As long as you know the time and location of each hydrophone. Without knowing the exact geography and speed of sound in the various media, you might only locate it to a several kilometer area, but it’s possible.

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns Год назад +2

      Thought the same! No idea HOW to do it, but I did think "Can't they (blah blah math math...) and pin down the source location?"
      (Edit: I can't spell words well today, apparently)

    • @larrywest42
      @larrywest42 Год назад +2

      Still tricky, though: lots of reflections (valleys, mountains) and changes in water temperature/density (= speed of sound) over long distances.

    • @geoffstrickler
      @geoffstrickler Год назад

      @@larrywest42 Right, but you should still be able to localize it significantly, to an area probably less than 10km radius, perhaps much closer.

  • @krisfaust909
    @krisfaust909 Год назад +1

    The mystery of Bloop was resolved a few years ago, he even started making appearances on certain RUclips channel. We haven't seen him in a while though, he is believed to have been eaten by a shark.

  • @nomekop777
    @nomekop777 8 месяцев назад

    6:41 i love that this particular Magic the Gathering art is used so much as some kind of stock image

  • @lachiem
    @lachiem Год назад +3

    I feel like Neil Breen could make the bloop

  • @JohnYowan
    @JohnYowan Год назад +10

    The RadioLab episode "Red Herring" (FEB 19, 2021) has a really interesting underwater sound story involving an odd sound heard off the coast of Sweden during the cold war. It's both very educational and pretty funny. Worth giving it a listen if you get a chance.

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan Год назад

      Another Whiskey on the rocks? 🙂

    • @Crackracket
      @Crackracket Год назад

      It was fish fucking lol

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Год назад

      It referenced a Ted talk, whose title is a spoiler so I won't mention it, but it was a classic Cold War submarine story.

    • @sneakyfox4651
      @sneakyfox4651 Год назад

      @@zapfanzapfan I remember that incidence. I was in my mid teens and it sparked my interest for geopolitics. Being a Dane with (former Soviet) Baltic relatives, anything happening in these parts of the world naturally catch my attention.
      A couple of decades later I happened to find a book by two Swedish journalists, covering the odds and ends of the Uboat 137 beaching, including e few things that never made it to the public news, like Soviet submariners swapping their mechanical diver's watches for cheap Japanese digital watches, or one Swedish officer scooping up some adult magazines and giving them to the Russians to their great delight.
      There were also a few quite serious episodes like a small Swedish boat almost being shot at when they tried to get close to the stern of the submarine to do clandestine measurements of possible radiation, indicating torpedos equipped with nuclear warheads.
      Many years later the political officer visited Sweden which was filmed for TV. The broadcast was called "Whisky on the Rocks" and can be found here on RUclips.

  • @amandab.recondwith8006
    @amandab.recondwith8006 Год назад

    Your segways from the program to the advertising is always a treat. I usually laugh my ass off! You're a hoot, Joe!

  • @MattV704
    @MattV704 Год назад

    never change. I always love your side comments, noises, and made up words.

  • @SMunro
    @SMunro Год назад +3

    Joe is always interesting.

  • @michellethong8476
    @michellethong8476 Год назад +3

    Love this video and the names of the sounds are FANTASTIC. I also love when two things I love cross paths (there is a BTS song called 52 Whalien - which is where I first learned about the 52 hertz whale) and seeing it here made it even cooler. Love your channel, as always, and yes... the oceans are terrifying.

  • @raineob4996
    @raineob4996 Год назад +1

    One other use of hydrophones that wasn’t mentioned here - they were also used to track the sounds of Soviet subs during the Cold War.

    • @w.neuman
      @w.neuman Год назад

      *( ActuaLLy, He DID Kinda Mention °That ! ) 🚢

  • @catalind3304
    @catalind3304 Год назад

    Hey Joe,
    Big fan here, thanks for your work. Beautiful video as usual!
    Quick one, any plan to check the seaweed farming industry in a future video?
    Stay safe! 🤗

  • @krioni86sa
    @krioni86sa Год назад +3

    Did the thumbnail made this channel a clickbait channel already?

  • @sujimtangerines
    @sujimtangerines Год назад +3

    Alexa, play Whalien 52

  • @captain_fuzzieness3582
    @captain_fuzzieness3582 Год назад +2

    I don't mind conspiracies because they are fun sometimes, but only for mysterious stuff like this. I do love knowing the actual reason for a mystery happening though. Who knew ice could be so noisy?

  • @Relkond
    @Relkond Год назад

    The simplest, best argument I have for these mystery sounds not being organic is this:
    ‘Lions don’t roar once and then die.’ Biological critters tend to repeat actions. Birds chips. Cows moo. Woodpeckers won’t stop pecking on the sheet metal around my chimney. The bloop was once. Similar ‘once ever’ sounds will likewise generally have non-organic causes. Oh, there may be the odd exceptions. Trees fall. some critter may fill a large sea-floor colony with gas and one day become unanchored - bloop! - no more colony, but in general once-only high-energy events in the recorded history of man have non-organic causes.

  • @AJ-fb9pk
    @AJ-fb9pk Год назад +1

    Imagine Cthulhu with its menacing face coming towards the mic and saying "bloop".
    That's probably its version of "bruh".

  • @dg8620
    @dg8620 Год назад

    When I was a preteen we had a pond in our garden. Two ducks showed up and had ducklings. We fed them and they were like outdoor pets. They grew into teenage ducks.
    One day my dad was taking a bath and my sister and I thought it would be a funny prank to drop them in the bath with my dad, who was laying back in the tub with his eyes closed. Two things hadn't occurred to us - 1) ducks have claws at the tips of their toes, 2) ducks instantly poop when introduced to hot water containing an angry bleeding middle-aged man. While emerging from the water he screamed a certain sound that perfectly conveyed pain, confusion, anger, and surprise.
    While it wasn't recorded, I attest that was definitely the loudest sound ever made underwater.

  • @markgaydosh4249
    @markgaydosh4249 Год назад

    Litterally just searched this topic today for fun. And suddenly just a day ago you release a well made video on the exact topic?!

  • @wagnerrp
    @wagnerrp Год назад

    @3:17 It's not "triangulation". A single sensor doesn't know what direction the sound came from, so it can't provide an angle to use for triangulation. Multiple sensors can define an angle, and multiple sensors in more than one position can give you the two necessary for triangulation, but multilateration is easier and more flexible, and requires less hardware.

  • @ku8721
    @ku8721 Год назад +1

    HA!!! That is at least TWICE Jason got you with that same bit!!!
    Also WELCOME BACK!!! Are the weekly uploads coming back soon??? Please you're easily the best part of my Mondays.

  • @Nolantrees
    @Nolantrees Год назад

    Great video, but the Ad for Henson shaving made me try out the razor and it’s INSANELY AMAZING. So nicely made and such a great deal.

  • @Mark_Bridges
    @Mark_Bridges Год назад

    Joe said the underwater sound was 180 decibels which is louder than a 747. Underwater sounds are measured on a different decibel scale, you can't compare decibels underwater to decibels in the air, they're quite different because they use a different base, or zero-decibel point.

  • @DaneOrschlovsky
    @DaneOrschlovsky Год назад +1

    The educational children's show Octonauts did a "Lonely Whale" episode where they encountered a whale with an unusual call. It turns out to just be genetics, the Octonauts fashioned a device that changes the whale's call to the frequency his friends understand, and he's no longer a lonely, odd whale. Well, besides the whole voice modulator thing.

  • @Ireallyreallywishiwerenthere
    @Ireallyreallywishiwerenthere Год назад +2

    Cool story about the thumbnail, I actually met the artist that drew that picture when I was 12-13. We were in Anaheim CA for a goth culture event. I still have his business card in one of my old wallets, it has the same picture on it. Had I known he was a famous online artist I would’ve asked for an autograph 😂

  • @flyin4352
    @flyin4352 Год назад

    I have something super similar to a Hensen razer. I loved the thing but one of the replacement blades was a little too big for the razer and I dropped it in just the wrong way to literally flay open a part of my finger. Still can't look at it without feeling sick unfortunatly, but it was a fantastic razer before that.

  • @OneUniti
    @OneUniti 10 месяцев назад

    The bloop was actually me opening a door when my wife is trying to take a nap.

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 Год назад

    Hey Joe.
    Yup, you still crack me up.
    I am apparently on the same sick and sad and twisted wavelength as you.

  • @meganthearchitectbrown6912
    @meganthearchitectbrown6912 Год назад

    Your humor is so good that it DOESN'T fail.

  • @smoothwalrus9354
    @smoothwalrus9354 Год назад +1

    Kinda makes sense if you think about the sound a golf ball makes when it bounces on a frozen lake. It's like a super pitched down version of that. So cool.

  • @antonsimmons8519
    @antonsimmons8519 11 месяцев назад +1

    So, you drop an ice cube in a bucket of water, the water upthrusts while making a sound that goes "Bloop!" Figures, it'd be simple like that.

  • @strings1984
    @strings1984 Год назад

    Dont be let down, its the discoveries we never see coming when we are looking for something else... that amazes me.

  • @PublicNemesis
    @PublicNemesis Год назад +1

    I love ocean videos, some of my favorite behind weird historic videos

  • @ThomasGabrielsen
    @ThomasGabrielsen Год назад +1

    "The Whistle" was me. I swam for the first time in the summer of 1997 which was a very cold summer. The water was cold and I howled while swimming towards shore as fast as I could. The low pitch is a result of the Doppler effect as I was moving lightning fast out of the water and away from any hydrophones. I'm not proud of it, but it's time I put an end to this 'myth'.

  • @lostsock9852
    @lostsock9852 Год назад

    Oddly enough, I find the explanation of the bloop as an icequake more soothing than the idea of an as-yet undiscovered huge creature

  • @rickoleary7060
    @rickoleary7060 Год назад

    As soon as you said I'm not going to play the whole clip nit here you go it gave me an ad lmfao perfect timing