Very interesting. So that there is a sonar? I thought it was a radar and was thinking about how the girls didn't get electrocuted.
I never knew sonars are able to be used for fishing. It's a good way to get rations when you're at sea or something, I guess.
*Edit: Oh, that is a radar. It's a type 33 surface radar that can be used by all ships, 'xcept subs and sub tenders. That's a pretty rare looking equipment too. This Ushio can really build some good radars.
I don't know of any radar that does similar things (maybe the author is just confusing the two), but researching it finds some interesting articles The best that I could find were some high-frequency radars meant to be used to track ocean currents.
I like how government experts conduct a study and conclude testing will probably kill a few hundred animals over five years only to have an environmental whack job says they "don't trust them", but then cites a 'study' by a known radical environmentalist group and take their ludicrous estimate at face value without further comment even though it's at least 140 TIMES the government study at a bare minimum. This is why people do shit like not take global warming seriously.
I like how government experts conduct a study and conclude testing will probably kill a few hundred animals over five years only to have an environmental whack job says they "don't trust them", but then cites a 'study' by a known radical environmentalist group and take their ludicrous estimate at face value without further comment even though it's at least 140 TIMES the government study at a bare minimum. This is why people do shit like not take global warming seriously.
Ah, whoops, I didn't mean to link that one, I meant to link a different one that was not showing as flagrant a bias. (Not that Huffington Post isn't a liberal rag, itself.) That one was just the first one that came up when I was googling articles on sonar killing marine wildlife.
To be fair, though, there is a difference in that the "obviously biased" one says "injured or killed", while the 155 number would be directly killed, and then said "Off the East Coast, there may be 11,267 serious injuries and 1.89 million minor injuries, such as temporary hearing loss," according to the Navy, itself, which is more than the Greanpeace estimate, so it looks like it's more a matter of what you're defining as the threshold amount of damage for the number, rather than pulling some random number out of their ass.
