Navy’s Deadly Sonar Threatens Whales
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. Act now
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Protect whales from the Bush Admistration's last-minute rules!
Before the Bush Administration left office, it passed three dangerous rules that would allow the Navy "to take" -- to harass, injure, or kill -- marine mammals more than 10 million times over the next 5 years of sonar training. These rules would allow the Navy to flood millions of square miles of ocean with mid-frequency active sonar, including waters along the Eastern Seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico, California, and Hawaii. Send a message to the Obama Administration urging them to reverse the Bush rules, and spare thousands of whales and dolphins from the ear-splitting noise of Navy sonar.
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