Is the Bloop a Shark?
He Confirmed That the Bloop Really Was Just an Icequake -- and It Turns out That's Kind of What They Always Thought It Was. the Theory of a Giant Animal Making...
He confirmed that the Bloop really was just an icequake -- and it turns out that's kind of what they always thought it was. The theory of a giant animal making noises loud enough to be heard across the Pacific was more fantasy than science.
Was the bloop an animal?
The Bloop sounds like it might have been created by an animal, but it is far louder than any whale song, so a marine creature that made it would either be bigger than any whale, or a much more efficient producer of sound.
Is the bloop a coral?
The children's television animation The Deep Season 1 Episode 23 finds that the sound comes from a form of sentient coral. "The Big Bloop" plays an important role in Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès's novel Island of Point Nemo.