[CPEO-MEF] Whales and sonar in the Pacific

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mass whale deaths tied to U.S. Navy sonar, report says

Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge
April 15, 2006

TOKYO - The U.S. Navy's deployment of active sonar to detect submarine 
activity is believed to have been responsible for at least six incidents 
of mass death and unusual behavior among pods of whales in the last 10 
years, according to a recent U.S. Congressional Research Service report.

In one of the most serious incidents, 150 to 200 melon-headed whales 
were observed milling in Hanalei Bay off Hawaii's Kauai Island during a 
Rim of the Pacific Exercise on July 3, 2004, after midfrequency sonar 
was used, the CRS report said.

...

The CRS report comes amid a growing number of reports of whales 
colliding with ships. In the latest incident, more than 100 people were 
injured last Sunday when a hydrofoil collided with an object, possibly a 
whale, off Japan's Cape Sata.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/04/15/1575086.htm
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Lenny Siegel
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