A record “longest echo” within the Inchindown oil despository

Cox, TJ; Kilpatrick, A

Abstract

In 2013, Guinness World Records awarded tank number 1 at the Inchindown oil despository, Ross-shire, Scotland, the record for the “longest echo” at 75 s. Guinness World Records calls it the longest echo because that was the name of the record that was broken, however, the correct name for the phenomenon measured is reverberation. This Letter has been written to document this unique acoustic space where the reverberation time is 112 s at 125 Hz, to detail the methodology for those who wish to attempt to break the record, and to discuss why the tank is so uniquely reverberant.

Citation

Cox, T., & Kilpatrick, A. (2015). A record “longest echo” within the Inchindown oil despository. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137, 1602-1604. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4908218

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Mar 17, 2015
• Publication Date: Mar 17, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 18, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Journal: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)
• Print ISSN: 0001-4966
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 137
• Pages: 1602-1604
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4908218
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4908218
• Related Public URLs: http://asa.scitation.org/journal/jas