Point Nemo in the southern Pacific Ocean is enounce to be the mostremote locationon the planet . When ship pass off through it , they are 2,689 kilometers ( 1,671 miles ) out from the nearest land . When the International Space Station passes overhead , the nearest humans to the sailor are the astronauts on board the station , given that they are only 400 kilometer ( 250 miles ) above their heads .
founder its closing off , and the fact that the current there are host to few Pisces the Fishes and fisherman , the area has become agraveyard for old spacecraft . As well as sometime satellite , go to sleep into Earth ’s orbit and into the area , the Soviet / Russian space station Mir contact its closing at the bottom of the sea , in a particularly weak area of the world .
It was here , in 1997 , that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) find a strangeultra - low - frequencysound . The sound , notice by hydrophones rank across thePacific Ocean , was powerful , and fantastically loud , amongst theloudest ever recordedunderwater .
The noise was a mystery , being so loud that it was picked up by hydrophones 4,800 klick ( 3,000 sea mile ) apart . Some , including NOAA Oceanographer Chris Fox , speculated that the " bloop " , as it became known , could have been cause by a maritime animate being .
" There are a raft of things make interference down there , " Fox toldCNN . " Whales , dolphins and fish , the rumbling of the Earth . "
No be intimate animal is capable of producing such a sound , direct tosome speculationthat it could be a elephantine calamari , or other nameless sea lusus naturae . However , at the time Fox also evoke what turned out to be the actual explanation .
" I think it may be come to to ice calving , " Fox added . " It always comes from the south . We ’re suspecting that it ’s ice off the coast of Antarctica , in which case it ’s darn gimcrack . "
The NOAA has find standardised speech sound to the bloop before , and has even used them to track theA53a icebergas it disintegrated .
" The all-embracing spectrum speech sound immortalize in the summertime of 1997 are coherent with icequakes father by large icebergs as they snap and break , " the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratoryexplains .
" Icequakes are of sufficient amplitude to be detected on multiple sensing element at a range of over 5,000 km [ 3,100 Roman mile ] . Based on the arrival azimuth , the iceberg(s ) generating ' Bloop ' most likely were between Bransfield Straits and the Ross Sea , or possibly at Cape Adare , a well sleep with source of cryogenic signals . "
At least our spaceship graveyard is n’t also the repair of some nameless giant kraken .
