Comedian Chad the Bird gives an entertaining and accurate telling of the once-top-secret international incident of herring farts and submarines that eventually, as a side effect, produced the 2004 Ig Nobel Biology Prize. The story begins at about the 8:43 point in this video (thanks to Sip Siperstein for bringing this to our attention):
After hearing that rollicking rendition of the story, you can see and hear Magnus Whalberg, one of the Ig Nobel Prize winners tell, firsthand, the details of what happened: