FOR KIDS: Fishy chatter

Scientists record unidentified noises in the deep sea

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In 2005, Rodney Rountree, a fish biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amhers, launched an experiment to listen to deep-sea fishes. He and his colleagues placed hydrophones, or microphones that pick up underwater sounds, inside traps normally used to catch crabs. The researchers handed the devices over to sea-bound fishers, who dropped the hydrophones into a North Atlantic underwater canyon more than 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep.?

Those recordings proved the deep sea is anything but silent.

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