Who created the Bloop?

This is a stand-alone system designed and built by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) to augment NOAA's use of the U.S. Navy Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), which was equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines.
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What made the Bloop?

"The Bloop" is the given name of a mysterious underwater sound recorded in the 90s. Years later, NOAA scientists discovered that this sound emanated from an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier.
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What animal made the Bloop?

He confirmed that the Bloop really was just an icequake -- and it turns out that's kind of what they always thought it was. The theory of a giant animal making noises loud enough to be heard across the Pacific was more fantasy than science.
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Does the Bloop still exist?

It was the loudest unidentified underwater sound ever recorded, detected by hydrophones 5,000 miles apart. It lasted for one minute and was never heard again.
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How fast is bloop?

Typically, it is played at 16 times normal speed, which makes it sounds like an animal vocalization of some sort. However, when the sound is played in real-time it has more of a 'quake' sound to it, similar to thunder." You can hear a recording of the Bloop in the video accompanying this story.
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The Unsolved Mystery of the Bloop



How big is a bloop?

the thing that is most recognizable about this large creature is its song which can be heard from nearly 3000 miles away from the pod. the bloop measures out between 77 meters to 215 meters long and it's teeth are nearly the length of a human arm.
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What is the biggest sea monster?

While the blue whale is the overall-largest creature of the sea, the lion's mane jellyfish goes to the top of the list for being the longest. These languid beauties have tentacles that reach an astonishing 120 feet in length.
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Which is the biggest bloop in a world?

The blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet. They reach lengths of 100 feet and their calls cross 188 decibels.
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What is the biggest sea creature?

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.
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What color is the Bloop?

Bloop is a sea creature looking like a whale, he has four arms to use for swimming and a tail. It has a big mouth that can even eat a megalodon whole, it's skin is light grey and is surprisingly bigger that Calamora.
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Is the bloop the loudest sound?

The bloop was one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded: hydrophones (underwater microphones) more than three thousand miles apart all captured the same noise. And researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which first recorded the bloop, couldn't figure out what had caused it.
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What is the loudest thing in the ocean?

Not only can baleen whales emit calls that travel farther than any other voice in the animal kingdom, these giants of the deep also create the loudest vocalisations of any creature on earth: the call of a blue whale can reach 180 decibels – as loud as a jet plane, a world record.
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Is kraken real?

The Kraken Is Real: Scientist Films First Footage Of A Giant Squid For thousands of years, sailors have told stories of giant squids. In myth and cinema, the kraken was the most terrible of sea monsters. Now, it's been captured — on a soon-to-be-seen video.
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What is the rarest sea animal?

Vaquita, the world's rarest marine mammal, is on the edge of extinction. The plight of cetaceans—whales, dolphins, and porpoises—as a whole is exemplified by the rapid decline of the vaquita in Mexico, with about 10 individuals remaining.
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What is the 2 biggest sea creature?

Coming in at second place—the fin whale is the second-largest species on Earth. Sometimes referred to as the 'greyhounds of the sea,' the fin whale can swim at astonishing speeds of up to 45 kph.
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What is a Kraken creature?

Originating in Scandinavian folklore, the kraken is usually depicted as an aggressive cephalopod-like creature capable of destroying entire ships and dragging sailors to their doom.
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Do squids bloop?

Do Squid Go "Bloop"? Probably not. No one's ever heard a squid make any kind of noise, really, other than "splash" at the sea surface. But if you read io9's fantastic piece on the deep sea's mysterious sounds, you'll learn about The Bloop, an unexplained deep-sea noise from 1997.
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Are there monsters in the deep ocean?

Hundreds of years ago, European sailors told of a sea monster called the kraken that could toss ships into the air with its many long arms. Today we know sea monsters aren't real--but a living sea animal, the giant squid, has 10 arms and can grow longer than a school bus.
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What are the scariest sea monsters?

Eight scary Halloween sea creatures
  1. Angler fish. Credit: Superjoseph via Shutterstock. ...
  2. Stargazer. Credit: James Van Den Broek via Shutterstock. ...
  3. Vampire squid. Credit: Noaa Mbari. ...
  4. Viper fish. Credit: Gavin Mills/freeimages.com. ...
  5. Lamprey. Credit: Sean Connolly. ...
  6. Scorpion fish. Credit: Georgie Bull. ...
  7. Red-toothed trigger fish. ...
  8. Bobbit worm.
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What is the weirdest sea monster?

The Ocean's Weirdest Creatures!
  • Leafy Sea Dragon. Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia. ...
  • Christmas Tree Worm. ...
  • Anglerfish. ...
  • Northern Stargazer. ...
  • Red Handfish. ...
  • Wobbegong.
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Who kills the sea monster?

In any event, in those versions where Perseus does end up in Ethiopia (or the Levant) he promises Andromeda's parents to rescue her in exchange for her hand in marriage. Modern adaptations have Perseus defeat the sea-monster by showing it the decapitated head of Medusa.
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What game is the Bloop from?

The Bloop | Omniversal Battlefield Wiki | Fandom.
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How loud was the Bloop sound?

Sound profile

According to the NOAA description, the sound "rose" in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km (3,000 mi).
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Is a bloop bigger than a whale?

Roughly estimated size of the Bloop compared to that of a blue whale; the Bloop is several times larger than a whale.
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What do kraken's eat?

The Giant Kraken can eat any sort of fish that it wraps its tentacles around. They prefer harder creatures, crab-like animals in which they use their sharp beak to shatter to pieces. Kraken have a special salivary gland in which it can poison its meal with venom.
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