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OMI: LFAS What Is It?
OMI: LFAS What Is It? Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) What Is It? Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) is a military sonar technology designed to detect and track quiet submarines. The U.S. Navy ... apply the Precautionary Principle when making decisions about acoustic activities to be conducted by the military and other institutions. This is especially true for decisions concerning LFAS as the Navy has ...
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OMI: Marine Mammals and Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Fact Sheet
Marine 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 ... 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. (SACLANTCEN Bioacoustics ...
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NRDC: Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
Sonar Waiver 1/17/08: Judge Issues Temporary, Partial Stay in Sonar Case RECENT SONAR-LINKED STRANDINGS Numerous mass stranding events and whale deaths across the globe have been linked to military sonar ...
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Earth Action Network Letters
The International Whaling Commission has declared that the evidence now appears "overwhelming" that military sonar is causing mass strandings of whales. I understand that the Navy's mission is defending our nation, but there are simple ways to protect marine mammals that will not hinder military ...
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Navy admits sonar
U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Navy revealed that sonar used during naval exercises in the Bahamas during March of 2000 contributed to the deaths ... as military sonar, explosion and seismic tests for the oil industry. The report stated "Based on the way in which the stradings coincided with ongoing naval activity involving tactical mid-range frequency sonar ...
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IMPACT Press: Spring '05 "Print Only" Contents
Iraqi people. Save the Whales: Stop Sonar by Kari Lydersen Numerous studies have strongly linked military sonar to mass whale strandings and deaths and now a variety of ...
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Marine Connection - Sonar
Various levels of human-caused noise including military sonar exercises, oil and gas exploration, motor boats and jet-skis can all have an ... - interfere with their ability to communicate with each other, behavioral changes and disrupt social bonds. Military Sonar & Underwater Noise Marine litter, plastics & balloon releases DONATE NOW TO PROTECT THEM ADOPT A ...
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European Parliament Calls For Halt To High Intensity Naval Sonar Use
Noting a growing body of scientific research that confirms such sonar poses "a significant threat to marine mammals, fish ... battle to protect marine life from needless harm and death caused by high intensity military sonar," said Joel Reynolds, director of the Marine Mammal Protection Protect at NRDC (Natural ...
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Federal Court Restricts Global Deployment of Navy Sonar - Press Releases
Scientists have been increasingly alarmed in recent years about undersea noise pollution from high-intensity active sonar systems, which have been shown to ... 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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NRDC: Press Release - U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Navy Sonar Case
(MFA). The Navy, in its official "Environmental Assessment" of the exercises, acknowledges sonar use ... intensity military sonar can injure and kill whales, dolphins, and other marine life and that the Navy can reduce the risk of this harm by commonsense safeguards without compromising our military ...
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