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The Bloop mystery has been solved: it was never a giant sea monster

I believe there is an underwater game called Mola. It is about trying to survive as an ocean sunfish.

I'm still working on training my mind to perceive the octopus' body as its tail end, not its nose.

I admit I was intrigued when I first heard of the "bloop." But at the same time, I was skeptical; I had also seen the claim that the blue whale is not merely the largest animal that ever lived, but at the maximum possible size for a viable animal. The "bloop" theory seemed to me to fit the...

Nope! Even if I die without getting certified, I will still be buried at sea!

It's the nuclear tests :p

Well, I am also a snorkeler, and I find a smidgeon of water under my nose extremely irritating! I would certainly use the purge valve if my mask had one.

And now it has a jellyfish named after it. Deepstaria - Wikipedia

I can only see this getting worse as human populations burgeon. Fish is a go-to protein for populations who have difficulty affording land-based meat. Already we have seen new kinds of fish introduced to the market as previously-popular ones become scarce. Whoever would have thought monkfish...

Your first paragraph brought back memories. I was a sonar operator in the U.S. Navy. I know all those sounds. But there was one sound which stands out among them all. We were about halfway between Hawaii and San Diego. It was midnight. Suddenly, over our "underwater telephone," we heard this...

Call me cynical, but it looks like you answered your own question.

Number three had such drama compared to the other choices. That's why I chose it.

I was trying to upload a video tonight, but I noticed that the uploads only accept certain kind of files. I checked my video files, and they are .mov files, not a supported type. How do you guys deal with this?

I have tinnitus that seems to be related to exposure to active sonar when I was in the Navy. (As a sonar tech, I knew that we could not activate sonar when there were divers down; but I discovered that it can be just as painful from certain locations inside the ship). In my case, there is no...

Considering that Karl Hiaasen novels are set in Florida, they're actually not as bizarre as they seem. I've wondered about that myself. All these years I've had to put up with a pants requirement, and I'm fed up with it.

Or maybe, as an invasive species, lionfish do better in less-healthy ecosystems. Depletion of the native species makes room for them.

I have heard of that. I think it mainly has to do with the lighting, i.e. any Irish moss could show it if the light is just right.

Well, I will say the brain eating amoeba worries me more than the zombie apocalypse.

I assume "shark week" has a lot to do with it? Wow, YouTube gives a very different impression.

A lot of sci-fi writers could learn a few things from marine biologists. Ever notice most sci-fi extraterrestrials are, if not outright vertebrates, at least bilaterally symmetrical critters with heads? In our own Terran seas, we have animals without heads or even bilateral symmetry! Just...