In the late 90s, scientists received a strange impulse from point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean. Powerful microphones were installed under water, at a distance of about 3 thousand km from each other. The researchers placed them in order to study volcanic activity in the southern part of the ocean in more detail. The devices recorded a sound that oceanographers did not expect to hear. It was a very loud noise, one of the most powerful sounds ever recorded by humans.
What could be the source of the sound
"Bloop" is the name of the low-frequency rumble. Only now its reason remained unclear. There was an assumption that the frightening sound was the result of the work of some kind of vessel, although at the time when the noise was recorded, there was not a single ship near Nemo. In such a remote place, ships almost never travel at all.
Fantasy image of an underwater monster.
According to another version, the sound could be made by a whale or a giant octopus. But the sound wave was so powerful that not a single living creature on the planet was able to reproduce it. If we take into account that only 5% of the world's oceans have been explored, oceanologists put forward an absolutely fantastic hypothesis: an unknown animal lives in these waters, which has gigantic dimensions exceeding the dimensions of a blue whale. It seemed unrealistic, because the local conditions were not suitable for life. The fact is that point Nemo is located at the junction of tectonic plates. Magma is released in between, creating funnels that eject hot liquid and minerals. In such a super-extreme environment, the possibility of life is unlikely.
There are still primitive forms of life here
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The opposite has recently been proven. A research group from Germany conducted a study at the Pole of Inaccessibility, as point Nemo is also called, to find out if there is any life there. It turned out that in the upper waters, at a depth of up to half a kilometer, about 20 species of unicellular organisms live. These creatures attract other larger representatives of the fauna to themselves. For example, a fluffy kiva began to swim here - a species of crustaceans discovered 15 years ago. But traces of a huge monster capable of emitting a frightening rumble have never been found.
Fluffy kiwa.
The point in this story was nevertheless set. Seismologists are confident that the sound is the result of splits in the glaciers of Antarctica. Every time a piece of ice breaks off, powerful sound waves travel thousands of kilometers.
Landfill for spacecraft
Point Nemo is known to all people who are involved in space travel. Aircraft that have served their time are sent to this part of the ocean.
As a result, a real graveyard for broken equipment was formed here. These waters are as far as possible from the places where people live, the presence of life in them is doubtful, therefore, the harm to the environment seems to be minimal.