A short review on sonar testing and it's detrimental effects on marine life -- somewhat opinionated.

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Scientific Hypothesis Experiement: Sonar testing has detrimental effects on marine life "Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar is the U.S. Navy's newest must-have defense technology." The Navy claims that LFA sonar will be able to detect today's "quieter" submarines so reliably that it plans to deploy LFA routinely throughout most of the world's oceans. However, LFA sonar may harm whales and other marine mammals. This sonar will generate one …

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…false killer whales beached themselves off Australia, hundreds of Giant squid had beached themselves along the Californian coastline along with unusual numbers of (harmless)leopard sharks coming in close to shore disorientated, Twelve manatees had also been reported to have died on the Florida coast, and 60 pilot whales have beached themselves off Cape Cod." All of this within a week of the Navy's go ahead to use this low frequency sonar, Coincidence? I think not.