Started by Inês Carvalho (@tidepoolkid) ·
The Bloop wasn't a sea monster
5 sources · 24 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “what was the bloop sound”
- Ended at
- Upsweep
The Trail
- “what was the bloop sound” (google.com)
- Bloop (en.wikipedia.org)
- SOFAR channel (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cryoseism (en.wikipedia.org)
- Upsweep (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
NOAA concluded the 1997 Bloop was almost certainly an icequake, a large iceberg cracking and calving, carried for thousands of km by the SOFAR channel.
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