This website/blog thing has been neglected a bit also and there were a number of things I wanted to write about thi spast month but never got around to doing. I've also been wanting to sort out the photos on the site and over at Flickr but have quite clearly failed to that as well.
So to finish this off with something a little more interesting that my travails and inadequacies I shall direct you to the following Wikipedia entry.
Bloop
The Bloop is the name given to an underwater sound, first heard in 1997, that is occasionally heard by sonar equipment. The source of the sound remains unknown, but is thought to have originated somewhere around 50ºS; 100ºW.Perhaps it is an avanc.
The sound, detected by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines, matches the audio profile of a living creature. There is no known animal that could have produced the sound, however, and if it is an animal it would have to be huge: much larger than even a whale, according to scientists who have studied the phenomenon.
Some postulate that the sound may come from a huge and as-yet undiscovered species of octopus or squid. Others dispute this, pointing out that no known species of cephalopod have the physiology that would allow this type of sound to be produced. To date there has been no explanation for what it is, exactly, that could have produced the sound and most seem unwilling to rule anything completely out.
