Save the Whales from Navy Sonar
Posted on May 16, 2008 by
This is one of the more bizarre environmental issues. Apparently, the Navy’s sonar equipment is very damaging to whales.
From NRDC:
The U.S. Navy is refusing to take commonsense measures that could protect whales from being needlessly killed by high-powered sonar. Scientists have linked the use of mid-frequency sonar to hundreds of whale strandings and deaths around the world.
Navy warships use underwater speakers during routine sonar testing and training that blast the ocean with noise up to 245 decibels — a sonic barrage roughly comparable to a Saturn V rocket at blast-off. That onslaught is so intense it can drive whales to panic and cause their organs to hemorrhage
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Oh how love the whales.
Yeah I love whales too. I can’t believe how enormous they are.
That’s awful! I imagine that much noise would drive most of the ocean life crazy. Not very smart on the part of the navy. I do hope they abandon that dreadful practice.
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