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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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April 24, 1990
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The Ocean's Sound Barrier
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A mysterious carpet, about 300 feet thick, believed to consist of
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a cornucopeia of sea-life, comes out only during the daylight
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hours to become the sea's "false bottom."
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This "false bottom" was discovered by Navy ships making depth
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soundings during the war. The soundings are derived from the time
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it takes for echoes to be reflected to the surface from the ocean
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floor. The returning echoes are then recorded on instruments
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which give a very precise map, within inches, of the depth at a
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specific location.
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By using certain wavelengths of sound, echoes were received from
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depths between 1,000 and 1,500 feet. The odd thing is that the
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ocean bottom in the locations being scanned were known to be two
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to three miles deep.
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The most plausible explanation was that there were vast quantities
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of floating or swimming objects, constituting almost a solid
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surface at the depths from which the echoes came.
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The false bottom ONLY begins at daylight and exists throughout the
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day to disappear at twilight.
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The false bottom carpet covers all oceans, even the Antarctic.
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Echoes taken over miles of ocean floor show the carpet to be
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practically continuous over thousands of square miles.
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General agreement among Naval navigators is that the carpet is
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made up of hordes of sea creatures.
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However, they have not proved observable by any known technique.
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The wavelengths of the sound waves which echo back give an idea of
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the size and abundance of the masses which seem to make up the
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carpet. Calculations show from ten to twenty of these organisms
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in each cubic meter of water.
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The creatures or whatever makes up the carpet echoes ONLY long
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sound waves, while high frequency sounds pass through them like
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light through glass and is bounced back from the sea bottom.
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The constituents of the carpet apparently cannot stand light since
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at dawn they sink from within about 100 feet of the surface to
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levels below the penetration of the light.
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The false bottom rises at sunset at a measured rate of forty to
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fifty fe t a minute. No swimming fish could rise so rapidly
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through the decreasing pressure without suffering the "bends".
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A wide spectrum of sound wavelengths has been used in attempting
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to analyze the phenomenon. Sophisticated modern equipment using
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hydrophones has recorded echoes from individual objects at
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distances of a few feet.
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These new observations show the carpet to consist of a bunch of
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"somethings" ranging from a foot to eighteen inches. Too large to
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be a squid and far too large to be shrimp.
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Based on such data, the carpet is believed to consist of deep
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water fish. If this is true, then there might be a food source
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beyond man's wildest dreams in our oceans.
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Navy divers have swum directly through the false bottom at night
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when it was within less than 200 feet of the surface.
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Direct observation shows enormous numbers of euphasids and other
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SMALL organisms, but very few fish.
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The texture of the carpet is believed to change radically from
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night (loosely packed) to day (tightly packed) based on the
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dispersal of the organisms over wide areas of surface waters as
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determined by the photic or thermal energies present.
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The entire phenomenon is quite mysterious and brings up many
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different theories. Water temperatures could cause a laminar or
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turbulent flow, some form of water structuring which would form
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temporary colloids, maybe a point of anomaly (4 degrees
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centigrade) which might constitute a world brain consisting of
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structured water, or other interesting possibilities.
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The Navy divers saw almost nothing which could account for such a
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wide and relatively unbroken echo pattern.
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The material for this article appeared in a book called, "The
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Strangest Things in the World" by Thomas R. Henry and published in
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1958.
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FINIS
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Page 2
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