The fear of the ocean and the deep is called thalasophobia, which in Greek literally means
fear of the sea.
While humanity looks to conquer the solar system, we have only explored 5% of the ocean
that covers more than 70% of our planet.
No one knows what kind of strange places or things may be found beneath.
While alternate historians suggest ancient civilizations, our own histories and mythologies
are rich with encounters with undiscovered or unconfirmed cryptids, sentient species,
and portals to strange places.
While the deepest depths of the ocean are as black as space, sound carries, and sometimes
what we hear cannot be explained, giving us clues about what might be waiting below the
surface.
These are five of the most mysterious underwater sounds ever captured.
5.)
The Rossby Whistle
The strange noise that you just heard was captured by scientists in June, 2016, coming
from the floor of the Caribbean Sea that, while too low for human ears, is so powerful
that it can be seen from space due to the way Earth’s gravity oscillates around the
noise.
The noise was discovered by scientists as part of a 60 year study on sea level and pressure
in the global circulation belt.
Researchers from the UK realized something was odd when they noticed oscillations in
the sea pressure around the Caribbean basin.
The sound, now called the Rossby Whistle, is the result of the Rossby Wave, a strong
sea current that moves through the ocean.
It was originally believed that the Rossby Wave simply disappear at the edge of the Caribbean
basin before reappearing 3 months later on the eastern edge, but this whistle is proof
that it continues to move through the basin.
According to the researchers, the size and shape of the basin causes it to act like a
large whistle for the flow current, producing an A-flat tone that is 30 octaves below a
piano.
4.)
The Ping coming from the Canadian Arctic In recent weeks a strange sound has been heard
in Northern Canada, in the territory of Nanavut near Greenland, that fisherman and hunters
have claimed is scaring away wildlife in the area.
The noise, described as a hum, ping, or beep, is said to be originating from the sea floor
in Hecla and Fury Strait, but has evaded both scientists and the Canadian military.
The sound is unconfirmed and yet to be recorded by so-called experts, but locals, hunters,
and fishermen continue to claim that the noise and its effects on the local wildlife exist.
Scientists, the military, locals, environmentalists, and UFO researchers have all posited different
but equally valid theories.
Some have suggested the sound may be sonar from submarines passing through the strait.
Hunters and locals believe that the sound may be caused by environmentalists trying
to scare away wildlife from the area.
Environmentalists argue that the sound, and the fleeing wildlife, might be the result
of illegal or secret mining or oil drilling in the area.
UFO researchers suggest that the sound might be caused by a USO, or unidentified submerged
object, or a series of high strangeness phenomena that has occurred in Greenland.
3.)
The Bloop The Bloop is an unexplained noise from the
Pacific Ocean, west of the tip of South America.
It is called the Bloop because at 16x speed it sounds like the sound of a bubble rising
and popping in the water.
The original sound may sound something like this.
The sound was discovered in 1997 when it was recorded by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous
hydrophone array, and was said to be so loud that it could be heard for 3,100 miles or
5,000 kilometers.
There was a lot of speculation about what the sound was - it was louder than any animal,
but not like any known geological or oceanic event, and definitely not manmade.
Some people theorized that, perhaps, it was a large, undiscovered cryptid living in the
remote ocean.
Others suggested that perhaps the Bloop was related to the H.P.
Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos, as the sound originated from a point not too far from where the Sunken
City of R’lyeh, was said to be.
In 2012, the NOAA argued that they had discovered the origin of the Bloop - icequakes or calving
icebergs.
2.)
The World’s Loneliest Whale
Research and evidence has shown that whales and other sea mammals develop highly specialized,
unique languages and songs shared by individuals, pods, and species.
This song belongs to the 52-Hertz whale, a single, lonely whale discovered in 1989 that
is the only one known to emit noise at this frequency.
The 52-Hertz Whale is said to have a migration pattern similar to that of a blue whale or
fin whale, but the animal itself has never been identified or found.
Theories suggest that it may either be a whale that may be malformed or injured, causing
it to sing at the wrong frequency, or that it may be a hybrid between two different species.
Between 1989 and 1992 the animal’s frequency deepened from 52 hertz to 49 hertz, suggesting
that it was aging.
If it is a known species of whale, that calls at the wrong frequency, it will never be able
to communicate with other members of its species.
Despite that, it has survived for nearly 30 years on its own since its discovery.
1.)
The Upsweep
Narration: The music that you are hearing now is not a sci fi ambient track created
for atmosphere, or a Gyorgy Ligeti arrangement.
The Upsweep is a series of noises that has been detected by the American NOAA's equatorial
autonomous hydrophone arrays since 1991.
It’s called the upsweep because it’s described as being a series of narrow-band upsweeping
noises that are several seconds each, so loud that they can be heard from all over the Pacific
Ocean.
The noise appears to be originating from volcanic activity located near its origin point at
negative 54 degrees latitude south by negative 140 degrees west.
The upsweep is a seasonal phenomenon, and reaches its peak volumes in Autumn and Spring.
Despite knowing the geographic origin of the sound, the cause of the sound is yet to be
unexplained, and the Upsweep decreases in volume with each passing year.
At 16x speed, the Upsweep sounds almost like an alarm.
But at its original speed, the Upsweep sounds like a chorus
from Hell.