dfx
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I have no idea where else to post this, so here goes...
On one particular dive during our recent trip to the Bahamas, we kept hearing a certain sound in somewhat irregular intervals, around 1-3 times per minute. At first I figured it had to be somebody's dive computer or maybe camera, but we weren't diving in a close group and the people that were in direct vicinity of us kept changing. Yet, we heard the sound pretty much throughout the entire dive.
Some days later, the guy from the dive staff mentioned that this area is used by the US Navy (?) for submarine operations and that sometimes you could hear them, so we figured, aha, it had to be a submarine. But trying to confirm that by looking up "real" submarine sounds online only yielded the familiar sonar "ping" sound, which sounds nothing like what we heard.
So, what is it?
[video=youtube;A0ZBDOr9jps]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZBDOr9jps[/video]
On one particular dive during our recent trip to the Bahamas, we kept hearing a certain sound in somewhat irregular intervals, around 1-3 times per minute. At first I figured it had to be somebody's dive computer or maybe camera, but we weren't diving in a close group and the people that were in direct vicinity of us kept changing. Yet, we heard the sound pretty much throughout the entire dive.
Some days later, the guy from the dive staff mentioned that this area is used by the US Navy (?) for submarine operations and that sometimes you could hear them, so we figured, aha, it had to be a submarine. But trying to confirm that by looking up "real" submarine sounds online only yielded the familiar sonar "ping" sound, which sounds nothing like what we heard.
So, what is it?
[video=youtube;A0ZBDOr9jps]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZBDOr9jps[/video]