Deep water sonar blamed for mass dolphin deaths

[Judi Lynn]

Source: 3 News / APTN

Deep water sonar blamed for mass dolphin deaths
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 3:22p.m.

Environmentalists in Peru are warning that an unprecedented number of dead dolphins are washing up on the country's shores because of the use of deep water sonar systems by the shipping industry.

It follows the discovery of 615 of the mammals in the last few weeks along a 135km stretch of coastline.
As many as 3,000 dead dolphins have been found since the beginning of Peru's summer.

Researchers at the Organisation for the Conservation of Aquatic Animals (ORCA), a Peruvian marine animal conservation organisation, said that ships using deep water sonar are to blame for the mass deaths.

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"We have been noting that the animals were suffering from acute decompression syndrome - that is to say, a violent death produced by an acoustic boom that disorients the animal and produces haemorrhages which cause the animal to end up dying on the beach," said ORCA director Dr Carlos Yaipen.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. add to that the number of deaths

on the Gulf Coast of this country

man is killing this planet

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, and add humans to that too. Man is killing off the planet and

taking all of mankind under. Plus all the wars and the rest of the crap. We're in this damn train rolling along headed over the cliff and all the doors and windows have been welded shut. And the guys driving the train aren't listening to anyone.

[cbayer]

2. On the west coast in Southern California, we have the Channel Islands.

Several of the islands are owned by the military and we regularly hear them exploding things. Big things.

The place is teeming with sea life and I often wonder what they must be experiencing.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. We seem to want to destroy everything around us and can't see the danger to ourselves.

[brucea]

10. What are you talking about?

Man is separate from and dominant in relation to Nature. Didn't you learn anything in religion class? < / sarc >

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Yep, killing off everything in the ocean won't have any affect on us, the

all-powerful!

[PassingFair]

13. I never had "religion class"...is this really what they tell you?

I've heard the saying "Man's DOMINION over nature", and I've
heard of "Dominionists"....

What religion were you "schooled" in?

[arcane1]

5. Why do we even NEED this sonar?

It's not as though the shipping industry uses submarines

[hack89]

14. The issue here is oil exploration.

you can use high powered, low frequency sonar to penetrate the ocean floor to find oil deposits.

Read the link in the OP.

[xtraxritical]

6. VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC BALLOT and get the neanderthals out of congress

then there might be a chance to correct bullshit like this.

[lonestarnot]

17. Kick!

[hack89]

18. What does Congress have to do with international oil exploration? nt

[felix_numinous]

7. The MIC needs to be reigned in

and I don't think that any one country can do this (certainly not ours), it would take an international effort at this point.

[hack89]

8. The OP points the finger at the oil exploration business.

the US navy does not operate off the coast of Peru.

[Snake Alchemist]

15. The Peruvian MIC? nt

[freshwest]

9. Thanks, Rummy! He had a hand in using this, too. The gift that keeps on killing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. and just last night, WXXI (local PBS station) showed a series on Dolphins and Whales

their self awareness, their empathy, their social structure.......



this is NOT what I want..... god, I want this human overpopulation and rapaciousness to stop.....and at the same time, my mere presence as a person living a U.S. 21st century life is one cog among well over 300 million in the machine that perpetuates....THIS

[lonestarnot]

16. Like we didn't know this was happening.