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The article and the professor offer two differing views about the sources of stranger sounds called Quakers detected by the Russian submarines in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. While, the author lists the possible theories behind those sounds, the professor raises the doubts and refutes each of the theory being stated in the passage. First, according to the reading passage the sounds were detected were produced by the okra whales during a courtship ritual and those sounds were captured by the submarines. The professor refutes this point and says that the okra whales always occupy the surface waters, whereas the Sub Marines located deep in the water, and it's merely impossible for the submarines to capture those sounds. Second, the

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