The Deep Ocean Noises We Still Can’t Identify

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Narrator: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (kpatart.com/illustrations)
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Sound: Graham Haerther (haerther.net)
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster ( / forgottentowel )
Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
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[@clivematthews95]

The ocean is its own world. I love how complex the earth is

[@TURK69KURD]

agreed

[@e-ben616]

Well it's literally where life started so...

[@runnergo1398]

@@e-ben616 We don't know that. Life could have started in a pond. But I agree it was started in water.

[@saadisave]

​@@runnergo1398 where would you find water on a volcanic hellscape outside the ocean? We are almost completely certain that life began in the oceans; there wouldn't have been any body of water on land stable enough for evolution.

[@HumanBeanbag]

The earth is it's own world as well

[@benservey9295]

ocean scientists casually naming sounds like they're Steven King

[@jessicalynn6285]

Stephen*

[@over-educated-sp]

Grammar Nazi’s. There’s always one. 😝 I’ll admit. I’m at fault of this though. When you take it for constructive criticism, it becomes a good thing. Unfortunately most people see it as a bad thing. Not me.

[@WaitWhat99]

Why do we explore space and not our oceans? Because water pressure is cumulative. The further down we explore, the higher the risk of instant destruction. Space, on the other hand, has a finite stressor; vacuum. The vacuum of space is actually a very stable environment, unlike our oceans.

[@MrVireon]

We should really send Sleepy Joe down there, there is no depth of depravity and confusion that man can't reach... Just saying... 💀💀💀

[@korstmahler]

"not our oceans?" I'll go tell all the Marine Biologists to quit their fake jobs then.

[@davidhand9721]

False premise. We do explore both.

[@jesswestcoast2667]

@@MrVireonyou’re trying so hard to be funny it’s honestly cringe 😂

[@homesliceslices69]

​@@davidhand9721lot less radiation underwater too.

[@Davethreshold]

I did stereo loudspeaker design for years. The speed of sound through different materials has a lot to do with good sound. For example, to make a Tweeter go higher, some companies are now using DIAMOND. Bowers and Wilkens is now up to 80 KHZ with their Dome Tweeters. The stiffer the material, the higher in frequency it will go before, "breakup." That is when the dome or cone starts to divide into different sub-frequencies, and the response graph takes a dive.🤩

[@RobinPalmerTV]

My Focals with beryllium tweeters feel very insecure

[@Davethreshold]

@@RobinPalmerTV Cool! I have a pair of the (I think) 120's with Titanium Dioxide dust over titanium domes. The magnets are HUGE, but they are nowhere near 80K either.

[@silverXnoise]

@@zen7349Transients such as those produced when a snare drum is struck have frequency components that range much higher than 20kHz, and those inaudible frequencies are necessary to form the sharp rising shape of the resulting sound that we can hear. It might not be tonal, but frequency content that fall above or below the threshold of our eardrums’ sensitivities contribute significantly to the timbre and non-tonal qualia that can be felt or otherwise perceived. There are also other more prosaic considerations when it comes to signal processing and amplification that sometimes demand performance at ultrasonic frequencies.

[@silverXnoise]

The way sound travels through air and water is also a great example of impedance matching (or mismatching, as it were) in the natural world.

[@Davethreshold]

@@zen7349 I think it's partly an ego thing on the part of some high-end companies. A friend of mine has a pair of them, and the sound is something to behold!

[@Xuebatt]

Imagine dolphins developing civilisation one day, they’d place microphones 3000 kilometres apart on land “What’s that sound? The land is noisier than we thought!” Turns out to be car horns

[@jambu3261]

💀

[@jerrysstories711]

Real Science never disappoints!

[@hebrewisraelitescharleston843]

The Lies We Tell

[@runnergo1398]

The best thing about the video is it keeps blowing your mind the longer it plays. Whoever is the producer/editor did a really good job with the flow of the video.

[@Heyheyrayeraye]

The thought of being really deep under the ocean absolutely terrifies me. I think I would spontaneously rise from a coma if someone tried to put me in a submarine. 😂

[@rabbychan]

Suddenly you see a gigantic shadowy figure getting closer and closer.

[@Ladythyme]

I’m right with you there 😮

[@MGzockt]

well if they give me a xBox controller... i would fall into a coma

[@Ismail-FIRE]

Why would someone put someone who's in a coma inside of a submarine?

[@Heyheyrayeraye]

@@Ismail-FIRE I'm guessing for the same reason you made this comment when this was clearly meant to be humorous, to see what would happen. 🙄 Also, if I fall into a coma, my family and doctor now know how to bring me OUT. 🤷‍♀️

[@jonathanrattanathongxay1139]

Do the insane biology of: The Blue Whale.

[@facts9144]

Learn some manners👍

[@jonathanrattanathongxay1139]

I'm sorry. Please.

[@hariganeshbabu7742]

Love your work! Keep doing what you love!

[@achristiananarchist2509]

I was a sonar tech in the navy and I always liked just sitting in there with the headphones in and listening to ocean biologics. Recently I was watching something on youtube where the sounds shrimp make was played and it was an instant nostalgia bomb because the crackling of shrimp was always the signal that we were about to pull into San Diego bay on our way back from underway periods and deployments. Almost a decade later, I hear that sound in a nature documentary and my lizard brain is still triggered to fire off the shrimp=home response.

[@pluspiping]

Although we're pretty darn sure The Bloop was caused by ice... Even if The Bloop wasn't a creature... I still like the "cryptid" designs people invent for it, as if the design could be a mascot for Weird Ocean Sounds.

[@tmorningstar2978]

Gave me the legitimate creeps the way all deep sea stuff does, I really enjoyed it and learned a lot!

[@Randomlyme]

tectonic plate movement

[@annecarter5181]

My money would be on plate tectonics- add in ocean currents, ship movement & large mammals vocalizing.

[@divemasterzach34705]

The whale sounds were eventually figured out. The documentary 52 blue does an excellent job capturing the story of discovering the origin of this sound.

[@jarrodbarker5050]

Facts are racist.

[@lonewolf36s]

In water, sound is everything. No wonder whales are committing suicide because of our ocean-based wind farms. We're cutting off their communication completely and they can't even think. Like being held hostage listening to Baby Shark on max volume 24/7, and turning off the cell phone network. They hear frequencies we cannot. Have we even evaluated wind farms on any level whatsoever as to their impact? How insanely cruel. And what a sad way to die.

[@geekdivaherself]

The Upsweep sounds like my tinnitus, only lower-pitched.

[@Vinny__212]

I love how early in the video there’s an element of mystery and unexplainability and as the video goes on, more and more of my questions are answered. Well done, super engaging and though provoking.

[@naoddoify]

I get so excited whenever a new episode drops!

[@MJAY_NFFC]

Absolutely love her voice, her accent, the way she pronounces words ♥️ x

[@alexlandherr]

This brings to mind the sonar operator in “The Hunt for Red October” and the “magma displacements”.

[@kayatreichler65]

Great video. Thank you for this knowledge!

[@Tentacular]

My mind is being blown out of the water by how amazingly scientific yet spooky this video is!

[@joshtherocky]

amazing video:) thank you so much for your love of science and education. You make this terrible world a better place.

[@annecarter5181]

What an interesting, well presented video; I really learned a lot!! Our planet’s oceans are brimming with their own types of mystery & life!!!!

[@OofHearted]

It's so noisy because of all the fish farts. There are also so many other things living in the sea, so many farts travelling that fast underwater, but the loudest one of all, "the Bloop", was one of a kind, the loudest one ever in recorded history and could only have be made by one thing.... Jo, obviously.

[@darkhydrat9096]

I'll bite, Jo?

[@OofHearted]

@@darkhydrat9096 Jo Mamma of course.

[@phelan8385]

​@@OofHeartedyou absolutely destroyed him

[@lasercraft32]

Its so funny and yet so dumb how so many KZbinrs, online influencers, and news articles take mysterious sounds like the Bloop and just try to run with them, saying it could be caused by some massive underwater creature... And conveniently leave out the little detail of the sound itself being sped up almost 20 times its normal speed. XD It's refreshing to see channels like this actually approach it from a realistic and objective standpoint instead of trying to hype it up as some supernatural phenomenon.

[@djjoshski]

*Love content always good to watch*

[@zacharywong483]

Very informative video!

[@pmarprj2108]

the SOFAR channel also exists in the atmosphere, and thats what the Roswell balloon was, they didnt want to let the russians know that we were trying to listen for nuclear tests and so they just let the speculation go wild

[@StepBaum]

Super interesting topic, never thought about it. Another great video :)

[@Science4Kidz123]

This is a very interesting video, while the ocean seems like a scary place it is very interesting to look at all these special phenomena that occur.

[@emm5468]

It’s important to note that these sounds were sped up a lot more than the original

[@RidireOiche]

If employed in less populated and seldom trafficked coastal areas, might that recording of welcoming reef sounds be used to attract coral larvae to an specific area or areas forming new reefs over decades and generating new aquatic environments conducive to improving life for both land and sea creatures?

[@trustworthydan]

That might be crazy enough to work.

[@varunprakash6207]

Ocean Research deep ocean noise & Whistle So many strange sounds

[@HornadySetiawan]

Many thanks for your good contents 👍🏻🏆💝

[@tamerlanegrand]

1:12 Doesn’t matter if it sounds like an “underwater car alarm” when you talk over the audio anyways

[@jameskim1505]

Officially 52 is my spiritual animal.

[@siniquichi]

Brilliant ad integration! 5 starfishes out of 5!!! Came across it out of the blue!!!

[@RemiliaVampire]

ur my hero stephanie

[@Netbase2000]

I love your videos

[@legolars5122]

I just finished reading "The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing. This video is a perfect addition to it ^^

[@leonardofusaro6029]

what is it about?

[@legolars5122]

@@leonardofusaro6029 Starts with mysteroius attacks of sea Fauna and Flora all over the planet that escalate more and more and scientists are working hard on finding out why. But the big danger would be a hard spoiler. Fascinating book.

[@bigfootnintendorazr]

Wonderful

[@HappyBear376]

Very enjoyable.

[@braydopaintrain4346]

Oh thats just the underwater alien bases. No worries.

[@robertfletcher3421]

So interesting. I am surprised you missed out on the HUM.

[@Highlander77]

You know...look up where the estimated location of the source of the "upsweep" is...and then compare that to the location that H. P. Lovecraft gave for the location of R'lyeh. Might want to rethink that "forget Cthulhu" comment! 😝

[@jetheron]

Best content.

[@LeahWalentosky]

Please do The Great Lakes on this subject

[@dosadoodle]

I had to do an image search of the beautiful creature at 11:37! It is a "gem sea slug". Alright, back to the other commenters who are discussing the actual topic of this video...

[@Shirocco7]

That segue... Smooooth

[@doug774]

Super interesting

[@kayleighgroenendal8473]

13:44 I can't agree more!! science didn't ruin anything, it makes it even more amazing!

[@jamesbrown6020]

Text book travel, all.about nature, AND REAL SCIENCE! all post a new video on the same day!! Boys, Christmas came early this year!

[@desmondhuff9]

Fave youtube channel !

[@bobdenton1]

Loneliest whale gave a new meaning to the name of a childhood card game. Good old 52 Pickup!

[@nathanmccall328]

next time you guys have a video where you show sounds, i recommend not having the music play in the background when you play the sounds.

[@juliamartins2959]

I’m scared now after hearing the ocean call my name 😭

[@eaudesolero5631]

So the fish is at coral reefs and everything like to congregate around the sounds of life and activity. How does this translate to land animals reptiles and humans? Has anybody ever done that study?

[@vitordarksider]

There are people who enjoy living in NYC

[@crossbonesI]

We will spend so much exploring outer space. When we have an entire ocean to discover.

[@risenempire]

Yeah, obviously that's why we WANT to explore space. Have you heard these sounds???

[@deltagamer6912]

can agree, going to space is way more expensive. ocean on the other hand also have important lifeforms to discover.

[@anthempt3edits]

We can do both

[@novigradian1284]

Well same (stupid) argument can be made for exploring other biomes then. Why spend trillions exploring the ocean when we have vast rainforests (or insert any other biome here) to explore. We can explore space, oceans and other biomes at the same time. And frankly we spend way less money on all these exploration projects combined then we spend in subsidies for corporations that are polluting this planet.

[@JackFrost008]

yup but exploring the water is more difficult mainly because of pressure and (obviously) no air.

[@timothytumusiime2903]

😂 Giant squid doing something weird is an interesting thought 🤔

[@Sunflowersarepretty]

Its amazing how we know so little about oceans. We've explored outer space but our oceans still remain unexplored. I'm fascinated by the life underwater.

[@marcob1729]

We definitely have explored the ocean far more than outer space, basically in every way imaginable.

[@talkingweevil3172]

@@marcob1729actually we know more about space than we do about our own ocean (not percentage based of course)

[@marcob1729]

@@talkingweevil3172 We absolutely do not. The reason dark energy and matter are a thing is because there are positively fundamental processes about physics and space that we do not understand. That doesn't even begin to address the obvious point of the oceans of other planets and moons, let alone those in other solar systems, or those not even made up of water. The list goes on. Just because we've surveyed large portions of the night sky with various telescopes does not mean they've been "explored" or that we know more.

[@user-et2dx5du7e]

​@@marcob1729more people have gone to space then the the deep sea

[@filonin2]

​@@user-et2dx5du7eNo one has left orbit of the Earth which is the equivalent of putting a toe in the ocean. Space is almost infinitely larger than the ocean and there are trillions of oceans out there to explore.

[@josephlance9262]

Can’t believe this channel hasn’t blown up bigger yet. Great content.

[@JT-ev5jh]

1 million subs not big enough? 😂😂

[@Ladythyme]

Does anyone ever ask why the environment above the ocean have so many strange sounds…like people talking?😂😂😂 yak yak yak yak yak

[@scottbilger9294]

On my first night offshore (or at least out-of-harbor) we anchored off Anacapa in the Channel Islands west of LA. As darkness descended there began a sound of bacon frying. It was audible only below deck. I guessed it was hundreds or perhaps thousands of lobsters or other crustaceans clicking claws or segmented legs or mouths as they went about their crusty business. Incredibly, we heard whales as well. They must have passed very close as, anchored below a cliff, the sound echoed so loudly it sounded as if they were between us and the cliff scarcely 100 yards away. The whales did not stay but the frying continued all night. .

[@gsilcoful]

Thank you.

[@over-educated-sp]

Those ufo 🛸 sighings have determined these things to be going so fast through the water. imagine the noise those must make?

[@phantommixamixi6472]

At 9 to 10 mins it sounds like Metroid music is playing in the background

[@fromnaras]

This was a great episode. I hope more people watch this and realize human activity is the biggest cause of climate change.

[@joshuawhinery208]

Good Morning Julia! These sounds from the bottom of the ocean make me wanna go full Trottle

[@AphroditeMilo]

very interesting 👍

[@crackedemerald4930]

Is predicting what physical process could make a particular sound one of those deceptively difficult things to do?

[@Kryptic_Karma]

In "An Immense World", if I recall correctly, one researcher hypothesizes that these are whale calls.

[@Evan.the.Butler]

My theory: The whales are playing tricks with us.

[@krishnagardiner5272]

i think i like these cool noises :]

[@jarednovel]

All the noises are indications that our planet Earth is alive. The planet is one big living organism and not just a rock as many people imagine

[@TeeHee46]

what are you okay 😭

[@jarednovel]

@@TeeHee46 what are you trying to say mate . I am okay and what I just said is a fact . Consider this ...when we look at earth from space you are just a speck of dust. You are invisible. And you are part of the planet. If you have any intelligence then it's because you are part of a larger intelligent system. If mother earth that is much larger than you and which supports all the intelligent creatures in it is not intelligent then so are you . A speck of dust that is part of a larger planet cannot be more intelligent than a the planet itself . Moreover most of the building blocks that constitute living things including humans such as iron and carbon comes from nature or the planet. Other items like oxygen and water also comes from mother earth

[@Arkhkalos]

Julia made me laugh, it being the name of one of my sisters 😂

[@HELIOSXXI]

I love the ocean damnit it’s so cooooool! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🐋

[@aaax9410]

Our world is a truley wonderful thing ❤

[@honkeykong9592]

Oooohhh the Baker tests were the best flex 💪 0:13 you have look how small those aircraft carriers and destroyers are from such a distance… like throwin’ a lake/small sea into the sky. I’ve watched all the videos suggested by this, lady or uhh young lad 😅 I suppose that natural science is the avenue of choice? Maybe nuclear weapons isn’t their cup of tea, but a run through of the tests in chronological order throughout the Cold War, would be good in this semi swift format. Just cutting out the chipper 1945 guys would be an improvement.

[@sheshasaibabagujjari3481]

Let Godzilla sleep peacefully.

[@over-educated-sp]

I love the ocean, on the other hand , I fear it.

[@michealwestfall8544]

Sounds like we need more microphones.

[@Innomen]

SOFAR reminds me of the shortwave band.

[@gofast8878]

i follow you for a while now. you sound so smart, really love how you Mixed in the "alien" quote. keep it up.

[@ftwallday3112]

Goddamn! I love her commentary

[@GeoffryGifari]

deep-sea earthquakes?

[@edwardjrenegaud1040]

I wonder if the "up sweep" is weather related.

[@brigittenichols8]

Upsweep is the earth's heartbeat

[@kadenvanciel9335]

Previous videos regarding those and other unexplained underwater sounds somewhat help out with the idea of those sounds being made by icebergs, though there are still ideas that organic entities undiscovered in the large Pacific Ocean that we only discovered 10% of so far exist making those sounds, due to organic quality as the man running AllTop5s said, though the organic quality of Julia could be due to some distortion like with the Bloop as one of the later KZbinrs on my playlist of videos regarding these sounds explained.

[@dericksilva281]

Valve could have just taken this sample, or, perhaps it could be just me pareidolizing it... But, it sounds very similar to half-life 1 doors sample sound.😂

[@hilliard665]

Does that mean for a sonic boom underwater you need mach 5?or a 5th of mach 1?

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Mach 1, because Mach 1 is per definition when your velocity is equal to the local speed of sound in the medium :)

[@hilliard665]

@@eljanrimsa5843 ooh cool thanks 😊

[@user-et2dx5du7e]

sonic boom under water ?thats so dam cool

[@NapaWorku-rz3jj]

Talk about the pistol shrimp next vedio

[@ReaperUnreal]

I blame ghost leviathans.

[@BorisKOUKA]

Does that mean Australian sperm whales could communicate with American sperm whales when they dive to 1000m deep ?

[@tylnozcn27]

Definitely a cyclops imploding

[@16thdemon]

Don't disturb the Great Old Ones.

[@caseymead9399]

Great idea.

[@santiagobanuelos1364]

Yo upsweep is terrifying

[@johnberry1107]

Can you imagine what land sounds like to them? Stay safe.

[@meangreenmememachine2890]

A pretty good explanation for "Ocean Noises" -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHyTcq2bn5aZa8U