Hey, y'all, so there's been this...weird...sound? coming from my Patreon, I think. I think some ice is breaking off the glacier I keep there -- can someone go check it out for me? https://www.patreon.com/theoctopuslady

MASSIVE props for crediting the artist of the leviathan image, as an artist myself it is a big peeve of mine when art goes uncredited too.

The passion here is obvious, and your insistance on actually being a proper communicator and crediting artists and cartographers earned an instant follow from me.

I love this channels ability to chip away at my misinformed fears about the ocean and marine animals and instead replace it with informed fears lol- I may never step into the ocean but at least it’s for the right reasons :,D

I’m an audio engineer and apprentice you digging in to the pitch shift issue. This is a factor in many mysterious undersea recordings (such as “the loneliest whale / 52 Blue… none of the recordings played on YouTube are 52 Hz that I could find). The time stretching thing is basically a way to extend audio using granular processing / by repeatedly playing each bit of it (like hhheeellloooo) and is often used by DJs when they want to make songs fit together without changing key. Or to shorten audio by removing pieces. It is NOT the same as pitch shifting as heard in the original bloop recording. Fun fact - if you record ultrasonic bat echolocation you can pitch shift it down to make it audible for analysis. Just like how scientists pitched bloop up.

If any of these monsters were real, we WOULD know, because Marine Biologists would NEVER STOP TELLING US ABOUT IT. Talk to a scientist for five minutes about their field of interest, they won't stop! (I'd know!)

I hate it when I google colossal squid and I get stuff about the giant squid

Your thoughts about people spreading misinformation is very nice! I like to say there’s no such thing as “unharmful” pseudoscience. It’s a rabbit-hole that ends pretty much like you said: distrust in real science and scientists.

As much as I recognize that The Bloop was caused by ocean ice, I really love the fact that it originated in somewhat close proximity to the mythical location of the sunken city of R’lyeh AKA the prison/resting place of Big C himself - Cthulhu.

5:15 i like that he says 'submarines' like they're a sort of natural disaster

Yes, the Bloop was an icequake but I mean that doesn't change the fact it's terrifying. The fact it could be that loud is incredible and kinda gives me goosebumps. It must've been huge.

As an artist, you've gained a huge amount of my respect for being so insistent on crediting the original artists, it's very appreciated :)