Doug Brown has been an acoustic specialist in the Canadian military for 33 years. Normally, his gig involves sailing aboard navy frigates, but recently the brass sent him on a more unusual mission.
For nine days in late January, Brown visited the small northern hamlet of Igloolik in Nunavut. His assignment was to meet with the predominantly Inuit locals and gather first-hand reports of a mysterious "ping," allegedly emanating from the seafloor, which some believe may be to blame for a lack of wildlife in the area previously noticed by hunters. The ping was first reported by a sailboat that had recorded a sound with its onboard sonar.
The army initially planned to send two specialists, but the other couldn't make it due to conflicting duties, meaning Brown had to go alone. He'd never been to the Arctic before.
Though he's an acoustic specialist, Brown wasn't in Igloolik to conduct any readings or record sounds. That had already been done, with no results. In November, the military sent a CP-140 aircraft over the Fury and Hecla Strait—the location of the strange sound—to conduct an acoustic analysis. They found nothing.
For nine days, Brown stayed at the local Igloolik Inn and met with hunters and politicians, taking notes. He went out on the land with the Canadian Rangers (a reserve force that patrols the sparsely populated North), and dined on Arctic char.
Now that Brown has returned to Halifax from Igloolik, his findings will be put into an internal report for the military. When I called Brown to find out more about his experience, and what he discovered about the ping in Igloolik, he said it was "case closed," as far as the Canadian Army's concerned.
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