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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 ... of September, 2002. This stranding took place during naval exercises involving the same mid-frequency sonar used during the Bahamas stranding (March, 2000). Eighteen European scientists published a letter in Nature ...
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OMI: Marine Mammals and Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Fact Sheet
(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.S. ... both 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 Panel Report; ...
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NRDC: Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
STRANDINGS Numerous mass stranding events and whale deaths across the globe have been linked to military sonar use. October 1989: At least 20 whales of three species strand during naval exercises ... not convince the Navy to take common-sense precautions during peacetime training with mid-frequency sonar. 2004: Responding to NRDC and other groups, a suite of intergovernmental bodies begins to take ...
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Earth Action Network Letters
Navy 1000 Navy Pentagon Washington, DC 20350 RE: Stop needless harm to whales with sonar training exercises Dear Secretary England, I urge the U.S. Navy to stop needlessly inflicting ... . 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 ...
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Navy admits sonar
The report stated "Based on the way in which the stradings coincided with ongoing naval activity involving tactical mid-range frequency sonar use... the investigation team concludes that tactical mid-range frequency sonars aboard U.S. Navy ships ...
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IMPACT Press: Spring '05 "Print Only" Contents
Norman Soloman It's Time to consider a swift U.S. pullout from iraq instead of assuming the U.S. has a responsibility to the 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 domestic and international groups are lobbying to reduce ...
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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
European Parliament Calls For Halt To High Intensity Naval Sonar Use SEARCH HOME ABOUT US JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU VOYAGE TO KURE FEATURE STORIES PRESS RELEASES ... international 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 Resources ...
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Federal Court Restricts Global Deployment of Navy Sonar - Press Releases
Navy from using the system during war or "heightened threat conditions," as determined by the military. Scientists have been increasingly alarmed in recent years about undersea noise pollution from high-intensity ... as the cause. Last September, mass strandings occurred in the Canary Islands as a result of military sonar, and in the Gulf of California as the likely result of an acoustic geophysical ...
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NRDC: Press Release - U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Navy Sonar Case
Supreme Court review.  ``It's clear both that high 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 readiness. These have been the unanimous conclusions of every court that has considered this issue, even ...
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