Researchers Have Identified How Naval Sonar Is Killing And Beaching Whales

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Researchers Have Identified How Naval Sonar Is Killing And Beaching Whales

January 31, 2019 - by Alex Larson 

http://seavoicenews.com/2019/01/31/researchers-have-identified-how-naval-sonar-is-killing-and-beaching-whales/

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And from the 60s onwards, whales washing up on beachings became a very common occurrence. The paper recently published is a summary of what was discussed at a 2017 meeting of beaked whale experts in the Canary Islands and revealed that sonar distresses beaked whales so much that the marine mammals ends up with nitrogen bubbles in their blood very similar to what divers would call decompression sickness or the bends. The nitrogen can cause hemorrhaging and damage to whales vital organs.

The big question that was brought up was how an animal that lives in the ocean and is adapted to perform deep water dives for hours at a time can obtain decompression sickness? Well simply, the sonar is so powerful, the animals dive deep too quickly causing the sickness.

“In the presence of sonar they are stressed and swim vigorously away from the sound source, changing their diving pattern,” lead author Yara Bernaldo de Quiros told AFP.

“The stress response, in other words, overrides the diving response, which makes the animals accumulate nitrogen. It’s like an adrenalin shot.”



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[in2herbs]

1. Good news is that this is good to know. Bad news is the use of sonar will never be stopped. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. maybe find a benign frequency or better method than sonar

[in2herbs]

3. How can we do that without a belief in science? Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if

the govt already has a remedy that they've discovered and are covering up.