Not to rehash Treble's old thread but last night while fishing the Sound in the multitude of bunker schools my son and I heard "the sound", "the bloop" or whatever it is you want to call it. The only difference is that this time we witnessed its effects on the fish. Every single fish in every bunker school near us would splash when that sound occured. Happened 3 times. Definitely coming from the water and can only imagine it sends a shock waver through the water. My son was curious and seems there are a lot of hits/info on the web. Check out www.bloopwatch.org there are many links to CNN articles and other interesting info. I would still like to get a definitive answer as to what the heck it is that we are hearing.
Mystery Sound from LI Sound
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bloop
i heard the bloop last year in the peconics...though it was tough to tell exactly where it came from..i was surveying East Creek in Jamesport for dredging. While standing on the sandbar on the east side i heard it...at different intervals...the sandbar would pulse with it under my feet...the bar felt like it would "jump up" with the sound. sketchy stuff. maybe its a big ol bass
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i heard the bloop last year in the peconics...though it was tough to tell exactly where it came from..i was surveying East Creek in Jamesport for dredging. While standing on the sandbar on the east side i heard it...at different intervals...the sandbar would pulse with it under my feet...the bar felt like it would "jump up" with the sound. sketchy stuff. maybe its a big ol bass
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Last time I heard that bloop sound was about 4 years ago around middle grounds. A sub came up about 100 ft off my starboard.
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Mystery solved...
That's the giant sucking sound of jobs going over seas thanks to NAFTA that Ross Perot correctly predicted.. and hey let's reward those sellouts with MORE tax cuts
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That's the giant sucking sound of jobs going over seas thanks to NAFTA that Ross Perot correctly predicted.. and hey let's reward those sellouts with MORE tax cuts
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maybe "something" got loose from Plum Island
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It got loose from Plum and then swam too close to Millstone
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maybe "something" got loose from Plum Island
It got loose from Plum and then swam too close to Millstone
This thread always gets the usual replies but I would love for someone who could actually provide an answer to this real noice. After witnessing the bunker react the way they did I am convinced that it is coming from beneath the water's surface. I can only think that it may possibly be caused by the cable laying operation off Bridgeport area. there are other links on the web regarding a sound wave that travels all the way from Argentina 3000miles of ocean. Scientists cannot explain the origin of that noise either. CNN even did an article on it.
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Sub?????
After reading this thread I spoke to a co-worker of mine who spent 12 years aboard a nuclear sub. He said he had mad many trips in these waters but never in the Sound; he said no sub; nooc or not would every be submerced in these waters.
He said maybe in some places in the world you could find subs in waters as shallow as the LI Sound but never state side. I know anything is possible but he believes it is not a sub.
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After reading this thread I spoke to a co-worker of mine who spent 12 years aboard a nuclear sub. He said he had mad many trips in these waters but never in the Sound; he said no sub; nooc or not would every be submerced in these waters.
He said maybe in some places in the world you could find subs in waters as shallow as the LI Sound but never state side. I know anything is possible but he believes it is not a sub.
MC
Sound in the Sound and possible Sub Re:Marktore
I have heard the sound many times when out there and read this topic on this site for years and to date the submarine hypothesis is the best I have heard.
Your friend may have spent a long time in a sub and never came into the sound but if you built a sub that is exactly where you would be.
General Dynamics the company that builds submarines for the US govt is in Groton Ct. If you ever took the trip to New London Ct on the Orient Pt ferry when you enter the river inlet and accross from the the New London side on the eastern shore you can see the General Dynamics plant and yes you can see many submarines and yep they test them in our waters.
With that group working on the latest technology especially "sound and sonar technology" it would make for a plausable theory as the sound origin.
It makes sense to me, I mean when whales sing you can hear them above water; now I imagine when a sub uses sonar (maybe specific type of sonar) perhaps that is what that sounds like, dont know but best theory in my eyes to date.
But yes subs are in our waters.
I have heard the sound many times when out there and read this topic on this site for years and to date the submarine hypothesis is the best I have heard.
Your friend may have spent a long time in a sub and never came into the sound but if you built a sub that is exactly where you would be.
General Dynamics the company that builds submarines for the US govt is in Groton Ct. If you ever took the trip to New London Ct on the Orient Pt ferry when you enter the river inlet and accross from the the New London side on the eastern shore you can see the General Dynamics plant and yes you can see many submarines and yep they test them in our waters.
With that group working on the latest technology especially "sound and sonar technology" it would make for a plausable theory as the sound origin.
It makes sense to me, I mean when whales sing you can hear them above water; now I imagine when a sub uses sonar (maybe specific type of sonar) perhaps that is what that sounds like, dont know but best theory in my eyes to date.
But yes subs are in our waters.
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