apparently they picked up a sound that was made by something bigger than a blue whale.

check out this article:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=517

Wow! That's cool! Maybe it was a group of whales vocalizing in unison? Or else a signal for the mothership to come and pick it up...........

Good find. It also scares me a bit to think there is something bigger then a blue whale out there.

wow this is so cool.

lame... i doubt theres any undiscovered animals out there BIGGER than the largest known animal on earth. i know theres probably loads of undiscovered sea creatures smaller than a blue whale, but we would have found it if it was as huge as they say it was. ever think it was maybe a group of blue whales swimming in a tight group?

Cool. Good find.

you sort of got a point, but think about it. We knew giant squids existed for hundreds of years, but we only photographed a live one last year. Who knows what else can hide down there.

This is not a new story. In fact, the Japanese sent chum & cameras down in the trench where the "bloop" sound originated. What they saw on the cameras was unbelievable. However, they are not willing to disclose any footage. Why? dunno.

I do know this...we have only discovered a small fraction of our great oceans. We have no idea what is down there. It could be a massive fish that only dwell along the ocean bottom.

how do you know?

We've explored such a tiny fraction of the oceans that ruling out an animal larger than a blue whale is perhaps a little too soon. The only real problem I have with the idea of a gigantic animal living in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean would be that, in general, complete darkness isn't productive to life...plants need light for example, and you need plants to establish a food chain.

Although there are ecosystems of sorts that exist in complete darkness, they tend to have very little variety of life, and very few large predators. An animal that was as large (or lager) as a blue whale would also need to have enough food to sustain an animal of that size.

But, again, we've explored such a tiny portion of the ocean that it's not difficult to imagine. Whether larger than a blue whale or not, I am certain there are plenty of very large marine animals that haven't been discovered yet.

With it not being heard again, it seems more likely that it was something natural going on. Don't know if there a way to determine how a sound is made.

Basing the size of an animal by the sound it makes is foolish. Black drum can make noises that reverberate through dozens of homes, as one once did in Punta Gorda, FL.

I don't know what to say...very strange indeed. I never even heard blue whales singing.

It's very eerie and beautiful. I personally think humpbacks sing better.

Yeah...I've got several recordings of the humpbacks. Now that you mention it, I think I'e heard blue whale's. I'm still not sure tho!

Cicadas can get really loud during the summer time. I bet nobody ever thinks they're some kind of huge beast coming to get them.

Anyhow, just a thought, maybe deep in the ocean there's like, a giant, mobile kind of fungus, just feeding on carrion that drifts down to the sea floor from above. Like a universal undersea garbage disposal. It would almost never come near the surface, so no one would ever see it. I don't know what the probability of a thing like that would be, but again, just thinking out loud. Or on screen, whatever.

something bigger than the blue whale, I thinks its unlikely but not impossible. am I the only one who thought of "The blob" when the saw the the title, then agian I did just watch the new simpson tree house of horrors

I found this earlier this year...neat huh?

i think it sounds like an underwater fart. of course it's sped up 16 times, but i don't think it was necessary to speed it up that fast.

the only reason i don't think it was a pod of blue whales is because you'd think that they'd pick up those kind of sounds all the time. unless it's extremely rare that whales would sing together at the same time, i don't know.

To be sure, try to find this on google:
Whales: Voices in the Sea

could it be the megalodon? or the kraken?

Well, it WAS a "bloop", don't think that there's any denying that....but WHAT created that sound is debatable.....could have been an animal...but if so, the "animal" in question hasn't been heard from since the summer of 1997?....almost 10 years?.....maybe is was a special guest "bloop" appearance or something...



Maybe these were the same people who "claimed" to have footage of a megalodon on video tape.....but have yet to produce anything.

Under deep blue sea... its dam scary. But yet beautiful.

Sharks don't even make loud audible noises...

I never heard of a shark making any noise

You have to also take in the idea that Megs have been extinct for some time

Sharks do not communicate by sound ruling them out.

so maybe a unusually large blue whale made the noise

umm... you people do know that blue whales are bigger than megalodons ever were???

I'm guessing an extremely large fish. Suddenly I'm questioning my choice of major (marine biology)...

Yes, the blue whale is the largest animal EVER!

Keep your major FalseProphet.........its an amazing field and has served me well....its even more valuable now!

So, I'm assuming that you are one... for how long now?

A site thinks its cthulu.

Yeah, I've been there. Bunch of weirdos with too much time on their hands, if you ask me.

I dunno. Seems like anything that large would have been spotted.
As for the Japanese not releasing those photos. As was noted: How do you know?

Aw heck, gimme a green chili burrito and let me go skinnydipping. I bet I could work up a big ol' bloop or two ...

"Anything large would have been spotted"??? Just how did you come to this conclusion?

yes, i was being sarcastic. it seems like a lot of people here think it could have been a megalodon, when experts say it was larger than a blue whale, and a megalodon is smaller.

Megladon. Definitely not a Megladon or any other known fish for that matter.

well, the sound sped up is sort of like a bubble...
maybe it is the release of large amounts of gasses from under the seafloor?
this occurrence is supposedly the cause of ship dissappearances in the bermuda triangle...
maybe the earth shouldn't have eaten that big ol' bean burrito the night before

they caught on tape a megalodon? who said that???

also, here's a link where you can listen to the Recorded sound , The BLoop

(it's been speeded up 16 times, so it's gonna sound real short and funky, but just picture it 16 times slower)

link - http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/bloop.wav

There was a thread started a while back about some scientists that were conducting experiments in the deep ocean that involved a "bait-box" and video-taping(bare with me, I'm trying to condense this down to it's relevant points). The individuals involved claimed to have captured an "extremely large" animal of some sort(there are varying reports there was actually footage of a large animal caught on tape...or that there was ONLY the "shadow" of "something" caught on tape) on video tape during there experiments that they have yet to produce.....or if they HAVE produced it, I have yet to see it.

Of course speculation and innuendo being what they are, it was surmized that the "animal" in question HAD to be a Meglodon......which is how rumors and legends begin and propagate....which is the WORST part...nobody SAID it, but then again, nobody had to.

Could be in response to this movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTKzrVv7I_o. Personally looks more like a GL shark to me.

G.L....A Greenland shark? If that is what you are refering to, then I believe that was what many of the members here thought it was as well. Sorry, I can't view Youtube from this terminal.

i think bloop is the sound of an undiscovered whale. idk if its bigger than a blue whale, but my guess its probably 45-50 foot.

There was never a shark larger than a Blue Whale. There was a dinosaur longer than one though, but I don't think dinosaurs could breathe underwater.

Yeah, that's a greenland shark, though it is a fairly large one from what I can see.

An undiscovered whale?
Surely you realize that whales are mammals and must surface for air.

And a whale that big would have been bound to be seen by now.