Scientists Are Perplexed by Mysterious Holes They Keep Finding on The Ocean Floor

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 29 JULY 2022 | FIONA MACDONALD

[Red Badger]

CUT ON DOTTED LINE?...........................

[Noumenon]

“You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?”

[NWFree]

If they can’t figure it out they’ll blame climate change or aliens

[MtnClimber]

Guaranteed it is climate change. Those darned conservatives!

[Bob434]

It’s obviously a Drip line-

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The pressure is very high down there. It is obvious that the ocean floor has been pressure-treated.

[cuban leaf]

Small camera and light at the end of a tube pushed into one of the holes should solve this.

[higgmeister]

Giant Oceanic crawdads!

[Larry Lucido]

[Flick Lives]

The holes appear to be rectangular, which is odd. I don’t know of any creature who digs rectangular holes than man.

[Bob434]

Yup- probably aliens=- i mean that would be the first thing I’d think they’d want to do is make some small holes in the ocean floor and hope scientists stumble across it someday and wonder what caused it- Them aliens are quite the pranksters lol

[Wuli]

I wish there was someway to force the use of the search function in the process of making a “new” post, so that the same “report” merely published in a different venue, was instead added as an additional reply post to an existing thread started by the first post that reported the story.

[Red Badger]

Search barely works as it is........................

[pas]

There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea.

[dfwgator]

What about the holes in Blackburn, Lancashire?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Shark Week Golf Tournament

[fella]

Hydrophone listening array.

[lee martell]

Express Lane to China, maybe?

[FrogMom]

Interesting!

[ifinnegan]

Never does it say how big they are, how found, how the images were generated etc...

It’s written for a wide audience we might say.

But then uses “infaunal” as if everyone would know what that means.

Clams or worms burrow and make holes on sea floor.

And this:

“Now the NOAA researchers are asking for help from the public to figure out what the heck they just saw.”

Help from the public?