Canada forces investigate mysterious 'pinging' sound coming from sea floor

[Judi Lynn]

Hunters in a remote community in the Canadian Arctic are concerned about a beeping sound that’s scaring animals away from a popular hunting area

Olivia Solon in San Francisco
Thursday 3 November 2016 15.23 EDT

The Canadian armed forces have sent a crew to investigate reports of a mysterious “pinging” sound that seemed to be coming from the sea floor.

Hunters in a remote community in the Canadian Arctic have become concerned about a pinging or beeping sound they say they’ve been hearing in the Fury and Hecla Strait, a channel of water that’s 120km (75 miles) north-west of the Inuit hamlet Igloolik.

Paul Quassa, a local politician, told CBC that the sound seems to be coming from the sea floor, and is scaring animals away from a popular hunting area of open water surrounded by ice that is usually abundant with sea mammals.

“And this time around, this summer, there were hardly any. And this became a suspicious thing,” he said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/03/canada-forces-investigate-mysterious-pinging-sound-arctic

[CentralMass]

1. That is very peculiar and interesting.

[progressoid]

2. Its the Rooskies!!

[applegrove]

3. Some speculate it is animal welfare groups trying to interfere in the

indigenous hunt for mammals. That is just wrong.

[kristopher]

4. What is just wrong?

Is...
- the speculation inaccurate?
- the act of interfering wrong?
- it wrong to speculate?

[applegrove]

5. Interfering in the hunt makes indigenous people in the north poorer. Many still

rely on hunting for food and income. Mamal populations are going down because of lack of ice and global warming. Not hunting. Plus getting your protein from the wild is a much smaller environmental footprint than eating beef like we southerners do. Even if you drop the environmental costs of flying food north.