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OMI: Underwater Noise Pollution
The best documented cases, where stranded animals were recovered in time ... High intensity sonar has been shown to have adverse impacts on other marine species as well. 9. The British Defense Research Agency reports that fish exposed to Low Frequency Active Sonar above 160 ...
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OMI: Marine Mammals and Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Fact Sheet
Mammals and Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Fact Sheet Marine Mammals and Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) is a military sonar technology designed to detect and track quiet submarines. The U. ... strandings indicate the whales were exposed to about 150 dB of low to mid-frequency sonar. These strandings demonstrate that 180 dB is not a safe exposure level. ( ...
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NRDC: Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
Greece as NATO ships sweep the area with low- and mid-frequency active sonar. October 1999: Four beaked whales strand in the U.S. Virgin Islands during Navy maneuvers ... Navy to stop harming whales with high-intensity sonar Related NRDC Press Releases 8/12/2008 Agreement Limits Navy's Use of Low-Frequency Active Sonar 7/24/2008 California Water Operations Threaten Survival ...
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Marine Connection
Catalina Basin, an underwater canyon between Santa Catalina Island and the Navy- ... beaked whales, which are particularly sensitive to sonar activities. These mysterious whales have washed ashore injured or dead after naval exercises using mid-frequency sonar in the Bahamas in 2000 and the ...
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Marine Connection
U.S. Navy's use of submarine -hunting sonar in upcoming training missions off Southern California until it adopts better safeguards for whales, dolphins ... reducing sonar power at night, when whales are not easily spotted, will have to be approved by the same court in Los Angeles that ordered the initial sonar ban in August. The mid-frequency, active sonar ...
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European Parliament Calls For Halt To High Intensity Naval Sonar Use
U.S. Navy's nearly 300 ships and submarines. Mass stranding and mortality events associated with mid-frequency sonar ...
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Federal Court Restricts Global Deployment of Navy Sonar - Press Releases
The sonar system, known as Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active sonar (or LFA), relies on extremely loud, low-frequency sound to detect submarines at great ... testing of a U.S. Navy mid-frequency active sonar system as the cause. Last September, mass strandings occurred in the Canary Islands as a result of military sonar, and in the Gulf of ...
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To protect whales, Navy will limit use of low-frequency sonar - Los Angeles Times
Navy will limit use of low-frequency sonar Federal court in San Francisco OKs an accord that restricts use of low-frequency active sonar to protect whales and other marine life. ... from sonar exercises. A separate lawsuit, not involved in Tuesday's announcement, involves mid-frequency sonar. That case is pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. Navy officials insist that the sonar exercises ...
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NRDC: Press Release - U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Navy Sonar Case
Southern California region but with greater environmental safeguards in the use of harmful mid-frequency active sonar (MFA). The Navy, in its official "Environmental Assessment" of the exercises, acknowledges sonar  ... Jeffrey Flocken, Washington, DC director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare: ``High intensity sonar and other manmade noise pose a serious threat not just to whales and ...
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OMI: Hawaii Protests
The demonstrations were conducted on the anniversary of the March, 2000 Bahamas mass stranding where the Navy's use of mid-frequency active sonar resulted in ... In 1998 the Navy was allowed to test humpback whale reactions to extraordinary loud low frequency active sonar (LFAS) in waters off the island of Hawaii. The University of Hawaii uses seismic ...
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