Concerning the sounds of mystery.

[oneighty]

I ease my twenty foot crab boat out Jeremy Creek.

I go very slow so as to not cause a wake as the law

and good sense require. The intense blue sky is cloudless.

The water's surface is like glass, disturbed only by my passing.

In the Inland Waterway I go to full speed. My boat is very fast

and leaves behind me a vee shaped wake, waves of which

break on the muddy shore line exposed by the fallen tide.

Fiddler crabs run, their Violin pincers held high, snapping.

I slow, turn into Alligator creek, with my bow hook

I catch the bouy marking my trap. In the silence I hear a sound,

a distant thunder. I feel the sound too, the very air is vibrating.

It might be possible to count the vibrations, they are so slow

so penetrating. Over the next ten minutes or so the sound

continues. I think earthquake, Tsunami, fighter planes from

the Myrtle Beach AFB cracking the sound barrier. There is no evidence

of any thing. Just the vibrations of the air, the tympanic membranes

of my ears. It is very disturbing. A mystery.

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[plcdude]

1. so what is your best guess?

distant thunder from a hurricane out to sea?

[oneighty]

3. I do not have a clue

I was so disturbed I went back to the dock for a while.

That was a good twenty five years ago. I have read of

others over the years telling similar stories.

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[plcdude]

5. can you pin down the day and year?

maybe we can trace a possible event that happened which could explain this occurance.

[oneighty]

6. No plcdude.

I was in the salt creeks thousands of days.

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[blondeatlast]

2. Whatever it was, I'm glad you were there to describe it to us.

More fantastic work, guy. Icould see myself there.

Thanks!

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. Nice, Ed

very nice

[TrogL]

7. Could be a resonance

Walk near a building that has corrigated walls and clap your hands. You will hear a wierd high-pitched ping. That's a sound wave being reformed by the corrigations to create a new sound wave by means of harmonic resonance.

Out on the sea, the pattern of waves may for a moment have created that perfect waveform where a resonance could have occured.

[fishnfla]

8. Hey 180

Did you ever read the book "Beautiful Swimmers" by William Warner? Its all about crabbing on Chesapeake Bay. I'll bet you already have. Its a great read, on a good subject. We love blue crabs here. So thanks

[oneighty]

9. Yes! fishnfla

I was a crabber at the time. I learned a lot from that book.

Wish I had wrote it. It is an interesting book for any reader.

I have not met you! Welcome to DU. I was a stricker

on a shrimp Trawler out of St. Augustine. We had come down from

South Carolina. My skipper was so scared of the ocean we

stayed tied up at the dock. My last shrimping trip.

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[fishnfla]

10. I figured you had

And you're right its a good read for any book lover, or anyone interested in American sub-culture. There was a show about Smith Island there and the crabbers on PBS last year I think, they even have a web site there now for their historical society. They are uniquely American, I like that.

We're in Daytona and I fish the Mosquito Lagoon (offshore too), lots of crabbers, I know some. Mostly keep to themselves, working very hard. One thing I know, its hard to make a living on the water.

[oneighty]

11. Barisal guns!

I remembering read about Barisal Guns a long time ago.

Google (Barisal Guns) these mystery sounds

have been here long before aircraft.

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