Hunters in Canada have been alarmed by a beeping sound that seemed to be scaring the animals away. 
Their concern is that these animals are running away from a popular hunting area. 

The Canadian armed forces is investigating a strange pinging noise emanating from the sea floor in the Fury and Hecla Strait, a channel of water that’s 120km (75 miles) north-west of the Inuit hamlet Igloolik which is near a remote outpost in the Arctic region. 

Apparently, this noise has been going on already for several months now. People who visit the area in their private yachts have also reported this mysterious beeping. They also said that  it can be heard not just by those close to the surface of the water, but through the hull of boats as well.

In a statement, Department of National Defence spokeswoman Ashley Lemire said: “The Canadian armed forces are aware of allegations of unusual sounds emanating from the seabed in the Fury and Hecla Strait in Nunavut. The air crew performed various multi-sensor searches in the area, including an acoustic search for 1.5 hours, without detecting any acoustic anomalies. The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts.”

People in the area have thought about their own theories, saying that it could be sonar activities by the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation. However, the company said that they are not doing any of those activities as of the moment. 

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.

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