The so called 'Bio-Duck' could be 'Bio-Ducks.'
Over 64 years ago, the ocean quacked. Specifically, sailors aboard an Oberon-class submarine in 1960 detected a series of short, odd noises that resembled an agitated waterfowl. But they weren’t the only people to hear the sounds. In the ensuing decades, multiple instances of the strange audio—nicknamed the “Bio-Duck”—were documented, particularly in the waters surrounding Australia and Antarctica, including a soundscape analysis of the South Fiji Basin in 1982. And while the jury is still out on the quack’s exact culprit–or culprits–there’s a new theory. According to experts, what researchers have described as one of the “largest still unresolved mysteries of the Southern Ocean” may be a conversation between underwater inhabitants.
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