The Loudest Underwater Sound Ever Recorded
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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 - VÄda a technologie
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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
I'd love to hear -- or feel -- something like that! :D
Sounds like some part of the ice cracked!
Or there was a sasquatch nearby (they use infrasound).
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Kinda sorry, kinda serious.
ok
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.
Okay but the 'people living secretly in the attic' thing has happened and it's absolutely terrifying đ đ»
Especially the ones who came out and murdered people.
Yeah thereâs some videos out there of people catching those guys on security cameras. Freaky as hell.
@@joescott I'm in your attic
Hugo is fed a bucket of fisheads every weeks
The people under the stairs are more worser...
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,
You grew up on a lake? Mermaid? Or: I'm picturing a little crab typing away on a cell phone dropped from a boat...
Raft house
Oh man it's so freaking fun!! It sounds wild!! You almost have to be there to believe it
Awww the poor souls who have never experienced the outdoors other than taking out the garbage.
@@squirlmy It's English dontcha know kinda weird.
If youâve ever been on a large frozen lake (or sea ice) youâll know that shifting ice makes loud sounds something like huge metal wires twanging.
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.
Iâve heard that twanging sound
Not going to lie, I though you said
"shiđ©đ©ing ice." I was so confused. I think I need a nap.
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.
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.
He'd make too much noise breaking all those computers.
#eyesonbreen
I canât believe it. I can believe you committed a Neil Breen reference in my garage next to my Ferrari.
Sometimes when I'm laying in bed, I hear him drop a tuna can up there.
Who ever made the names for the sounds needs a award đ„
Sounds like a fun job, huh?
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His name was Adolf hitler. Still think he needs an award?
@@liammeharry yes
Do you know why the Whale makes the sad noise? Because it Hertz!
A big ol thing in the ocean farted... Scientists baffled
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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.
The Fungi from Yuggoth are my usual joke involving Pluto. Talk about the edge of the universe also reminds me of Yog-Sothoth.
You canât deny itâs bloopiness â€ïž
I'm glad we know what the bloop is. I await the blarp.
Thank God you posted, I was stuck watching old Joe Scott videos
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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
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.
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i love that after so long you still keep the cephalopod joke running
Definitely an awesome topic to reference as often as possible. They're some of the most incredible creatures out there.
I loved that video đ
Sounds like an air bubble escaping the sea floor.
Could be methane, which would be pretty bad for global warming.
That's what I thought
Timestamp: 5:01
There were definitely some 'fart in a bath' sounds in this vid
Yep, gas scraping some seafloor seismic activity is my best guess
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.
Poor, wet aliens.
Yet another alien invasion, thwarted by delta P
they meant to go directly to the water. Why else would they come to such a wet planet?
The sounds that planets make are kind of terrifying. Maybe you can do a vid on that :)
Yeah, the first time I 'heard' Saturn I thought "huh, so that's where hell is"
I have never heard that and I'm 100% terrified đł
I feel like... I have?
I think I covered that in an old, old vid. Might be a fun topic to resurrect.
@@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.
I love this channel. Always learn something new with these videos. Like the sounds scientists make when theyâre surprised.
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I think the cephalopod script has been heralded like 6 times since that video came out and it never ceases to be funny
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.
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.
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. đ
Or maybe it's an underwater Wakanda. The shield failed and the ocean claimed the city.
@@Nitephall It's a wild held fact that underwater Wakanda sounds more like a kazoo or slide whistle. đ
Obviously
Why not?
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.
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.
Or purposely hiding them donât forget. đ€·đœââïž
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.
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I may be closer to 3 years (probably longer?), but his humor hasn't changed while his videos have improved.
Legend goes that the sound is still going around the ocean to this day, being reverberated and echoed back and forth.
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After listening to singing ice, I'm convinced this must have been one MASSIVE ice sheet cracking.
A whale stepped on a Lego.
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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.
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!
Hehe, I can't say for sure, but I assume there was some change in aggregation or recording around that time.
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I am so happy you included 52 Blue. It's my favorite ocean mystery.
This video is fascinating; I thought that it was due to ice but the distance the sound traveled is remarkable!
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.
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Found it distracting... it worked to make me rewatch, for sure.
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Litterally just searched this topic today for fun. And suddenly just a day ago you release a well made video on the exact topic?!
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!
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.
Good to see you back, Joe. Mondays have been a bit odd recently...
Lots of big stuff coming in April. ;)
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)
never change. I always love your side comments, noises, and made up words.
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!
Awe, that's awesome, thanks for saying that. :)
A glacier calving is still the most awesome sound I have ever experienced. The sound comes from everywhere.
So cool. I have heard similar bloops on deep big ice. Fun to hear all this . Thanks for sharing
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Oh, that's super cool.
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 đ
love that at 6:40 joe used a mtg card (specifically scourge of fleets) to illustrate a giant underwater sea creature,
I was like "I recognize that art"
@@mn6334 pretty cool
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Itâs interesting that I have seen bird spectrograms with patterns very similar to some of these underwater sounds.
Everything's connected, man. Everything's connected...
So.... Undersea dinosaurs?
@@larrywest42 WellllllâŠtechnically, by scientific definition, the term âdinosaurâ only applies to land reptiles during the Mesozoic Era. đ€
The eerie unknown sound must have been C'thulu's mating calls. He's lonesome down there :(
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.
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?
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Joe is always interesting.
Ocean sounds are beyond terrifying đł
The whole ocean is terrifying! đą
Nexpo did a great video about fear of the depths.
I love the running joke about Jason, scripts, and Cephalopods. XD
Hey Joe. Great video! Since you are at the ocean topics - you should make a video on the baltic sea anomaly!
As someone with severe thalassophobia, I can assure you those sounds are indeed either Cthulhu or giant cannibal spider sharks
I feel like Neil Breen could make the bloop
CZcams stopped showing me your videos. I remembered today I haven't seen you in months. Well... at least I have like 25 Joescott videos to watch now. Commented for the algorithm. Keep being awesome.
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
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 itâs possible.
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)
Still tricky, though: lots of reflections (valleys, mountains) and changes in water temperature/density (= speed of sound) over long distances.
@@larrywest42 Right, but you should still be able to localize it significantly, to an area probably less than 10km radius, perhaps much closer.
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.
Another Whiskey on the rocks? đ
It was fish fucking lol
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.
@@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 CZcams.
6:41 i love that this particular Magic the Gathering art is used so much as some kind of stock image
Hi Joe!! đ 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!!
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.
Did the thumbnail made this channel a clickbait channel already?
Thanks for that sound there Hank.
Alexa, play Whalien 52
Cool episode and I can vouch for the razor; great shave
Would like to just say, as an old school fan of the vlogbrothers from back in the day, I appreciate any creator that references "the dooblydoo"
One other use of hydrophones that wasnât mentioned here - they were also used to track the sounds of Soviet subs during the Cold War.
*( ActuaLLy, He DID Kinda Mention °That ! ) đą
I love ocean videos, some of my favorite behind weird historic videos
Project Hail Mary is a great book, I really enjoyed it. I also really like my Henson Razor. Thanks Joe!
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.
The mystery of Bloop was resolved a few years ago, he even started making appearances on certain CZcams channel. We haven't seen him in a while though, he is believed to have been eaten by a shark.
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?
Just bought a henson. Great video
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.
I really love your chanel whenever I new video ist out can't wait for the time to watch it â€ïž
Never gonna get tired of the Jasoning
I'm so confused. I got a wicked sense of deja vĂș watching this and could have sworn you already did a video on the bloop, now I don't know where I learned about this
Dont be let down, its the discoveries we never see coming when we are looking for something else... that amazes me.
I'd love to see the outtakes for this video! The Bloop Blooper B-reel!!!
Love the casual "my friend Andy Weir" name drop đ
I truly love this guy
2:37 love this bit lol. Reoccurring bits!
with a great blade - henson is the bomb.
Hey Joe.
Yup, you still crack me up.
I am apparently on the same sick and sad and twisted wavelength as you.