Impact of Navy SONAR and Explosive Testing & Training on Marine Mammals

They should send that Paul Watson guy against the Navy.. that guy is a joke. Too bad that the military is no joke.. god luck trying to get them to really change their policy. Plus do you want ruskies and nazis piloting submarines to new york?

 

Humans are ****s to the planet. The military is pretty much the leader in not caring about the environment. If we don't care about vaporizing an entire island, why would we care about a few whales/dolphins?

 

I love the smell of fallout in the morning. It smells like victory.

 

Looks like some nice off-shore winds.

 

Are those ships empty and there as a test?? Otherwise they did the army equivalent of pulling the pin on a grenade and forgetting to throw the dam thing.

 

That was a test to see the effectiveness of atomic weapons against ships.

Re: the OP, this testing and damage it causes to marine mammals is reason # 23841324 why we need massive military cuts

 

I would guess those ships in the pic are empty, but the govt. definitely put soldiers at various distances from nuclear explosions(in other tests) to determine harm from radiation and such.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

We def didn't give a fcuk about marine life when testing nukes.

 

The new sonar is super gnarly too, it will cause the Nitrogen and Oxygen that is dissolved in the tissues of marine mammals to come out of solution, aka form bubbles that grow with every passing sonar/sound wave, so the body tissue is being ripped from the inside by constantly growing air bubbles. Depth and therefore pressure also play a role in this process

This process is called rectified diffusion and is torturous. The marine mammals will beach themselves to get out of the sound field that causes their insides to tear apart

here is a link
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11894990

more links:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16006604

Gas bubble-associated lesions and fat embolism were observed in the vessels and parenchyma of vital organs. In vivo bubble formation associated with sonar exposure that may have been exacerbated by modified diving behavior caused nitrogen supersaturation above a threshold value normally tolerated by the tissues (as occurs in decompression sickness). Alternatively, the effect that sonar has on tissues that have been supersaturated with nitrogen gas could be such that it lowers the threshold for the expansion of in vivo bubble precursors (gas nuclei). Exclusively or in combination, these mechanisms may enhance and maintain bubble growth or initiate embolism. Severely injured whales died or became stranded and died due to cardiovascular collapse during beaching. The present study demonstrates a new pathologic entity in cetaceans. The syndrome is apparently induced by exposure to mid-frequency sonar signals and particularly affects deep, long-duration, repetitive-diving species like BWs. (beaked whales)

 

Not just baby killers. But Job Creators as well. I posted this petition a while back.

http://act.oceana.org/letter/monterey-seismic/?akid=3022.451751.qslI9d&rd=1&t=3

 

Whales and dolphins aren't the only things washing up dead from the sound blasts. Schools of mermaids have been washing up too. Most people haven't seen the mermaids because zagaffer collects them instantly.

 

Don't mess with the mermaids! You will end up cursed, unable to catch fish or waves.

Don't mess with the U.S. Armed Forces either. It is a gnarly tradeoff: homeland security v. marine mammal/oceanic health and wellness. Guess who wins.

 

^^^^^^Not mermaids and whales? "But why manboy, why?"

 

You might be able to search for more recent info
....then again, the data might be buried/ignored/proprietary/Corzined, etc