Canada investigates mysterious 'pinging' sound at bottom of sea in Arctic

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I decided to put this story here because it affects the Arctic.
It could be anything, Of-Course I'm Hoping it's a UFO Base Being Turn On and Going Active.
Or maybe some Alien at the Bottom of the sea pressed a button and forgot to unpress it.

Or maybe it's a Russian Submarine Saying Look At Us we're where You never Expected us! 

Or is it just a Lonely Whale?

Canada's military is investigating a mysterious "pinging" that is emanating from the sea floor in the Arctic.
The sound, which has also been described as a "hum" or a "beep", has apparently spooked the local wildlife in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
Paul Quassa, a member of the legislative assembly, said the noise was "emanating from the sea floor".
"That's one of the major hunting areas in the summer and winter ... And this time around, this summer, there were hardly any. And this became a suspicious thing."

The military said it was investigating what was causing the sound. 
"The Department of National Defence has been informed of the strange noises emanating in the Fury and Hecla Strait area, and the Canadian Armed Forces are taking the appropriate steps to actively investigate the situation," an armed forces spokesperson told CBC News.

Department of National Defence internal correspondence suggested submarines were not considered a likely source of the noise but had not the been ruled out, the broadcaster said.

Internal correspondence between sources in the Department of National Defence, obtained by CBC News, suggest submarines were not immediately ruled out, but were also not considered a likely cause. 

George Qulaut, another member of the legislative assembly, said he also noticed the lack of wildlife.
"That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals. There would be so many in that particular area," he told CBC News, recalling his own days of hunting there. 
"This summer there was none."

The pinging has prompted much speculation. Some have blamed Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, which has previously conducted sonar surveys of nearby. However, the company said  it was not conducting any surveys in the area, and had no equipment in the water, CBC News reported.

Others have suggested Greenpeace might have caused the sound to scare wildlife away from the rich hunting ground, an allegation the environmental group denied.  

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Here's another article about this noise.

Kraken-watchers, take note: The Canadian military is investigating a strange pinging noise emanating from the sea floor near a remote outpost in the Arctic.
According to CBC News, the members of the isolated community in Igloolik, Nunavut have been hearing a noise over the summer that has no identifiable cause. Consequently, the Canadian Armed Forces are “taking the appropriate steps to actively investigate the situation.”

The noise – which has been confusingly described as a “ping”, “hum”, and “beep” – has been heard in the Fury and Hecla Strait, roughly 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Igloolik, for several months now.

The sparsely populated region is known to be populated by plenty of sea mammals in warmer times, and they are often hunted by local Inuit. These hunters have been picking up the ominous sounds for a while now, and they have pointed out that they appear to be scaring the wildlife away from the area.
People visiting the area on private yachts have also reportedly heard the mysterious pinging. Apparently, it can be heard not just by those close to the surface of the water, but through the hull of boats as well.
CBC News note that their reporters have yet to hear the noise themselves, and have not received any additional information from those that have claimed to have hear it. Nevertheless, it will come as no surprise that multiple theories relating to the origin of the noise have sprung up in the wake of the initial reports.

One is that the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is to blame. Although it has conducted plenty of sonar surveys in the region as of late – which ecological activists say may be confusing local whale and narwhal populations – the company said that they haven’t been doing so this summer.

In fact, the local government has said that they haven’t issued any territorial permits to any company or group for any construction or hydrographic work to be conducted in the region.
Some have suggested that Greenpeace might be deploying underwater sonar emitters in order to scare aquatic life away, primarily so that the Inuit cannot harm them during their hunts. A spokesperson for the group denied this accusation to CBC News, noting that they respect the right of the Inuit to engage in such hunting.

The Department of National Defence notes that although submarines passing through the area haven’t been ruled out, it’s very unlikely that they are to blame. Igloolik, however, is just 70 kilometers (43 miles) away from an active military base, so if secret military experiments are your favorite type of conspiracy theory, then there’s certainly something to latch on to.

For now, the noise remains unexplained. It's probably not Cthulhu, though.

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