 beneath the water shows how rich marine life is. Hotel worker urges holidaymakers to check their rooms for bed bugs The ocean liner 'Titanic' on her first and last voyage, after leaving Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland ( Getty Images) The mystery sound was identified in a new expedition by OceanGate Expeditions which examined the remains of the famous ship. Titanic sank after a collision with an iceberg on April 15, 1912, and the remnants of the liner are around 350 nautical miles off Newfoundland coast. The exploration team said the sonar blip was 'eerily similar' to the Titanic's own signal. But it turned out to have emerged from the ecosystem of basalt formation which was unknown to exist. OceanGate Expeditions discovered a diverse ecosystem on a previously unknown basalt formation near the Titanic ( OceanGate Expeditions) Dr Steve W Ross, chief scientist OceanGate Expeditions said: "This discovery will improve the way we think about biodiversity of the abyss. "We are astonished at the diversity and density of the sponges, bamboo corals, other cold-water corals, squat lobsters, and fishes that are thri){kind=link}
The sonar blip whch was heard by divers was first thought to have been another shipwreck or caused by some aspect of geology and left explorers scratching their heads
The mystery of a ‘sonar blip’ heard during a dive of the Titanic shipwreck was caused by underwater ‘ecosystem’, it has been revealed.
Those exploring the wreck in 1998 heard a strange sonar transmission in the vast North Atlantic Ocean.
It was first thought to have been another shipwreck or caused by some aspect of geology and left explorers scratching their heads.
But researchers have discovered the transmission noise was caused by an underwater ecosystem which had marine life such as sponges, corals, squat lobsters and fish.