Sonar Used Before Whales Hit Shore; Navy Changes Story but Still Denies Responsibility

The Washington Post | August 31, 2004| | Copyright

The Navy has acknowledged that vessels on maneuver off Hawaii last month used their sonar periodically in the 20 hours before a large pod of melon-headed whales unexpectedly came to shore in the area. The acknowledgement added to an already contentious debate over whether the sound from sonar has been causing marine mammals to strand.

Navy officials said that a review of the July 3 incident indicates that two ships turned on their sonar between 6:45 and 7:10 a.m., by most accounts just before the unusual movement of almost 200 deep- water whales to the shoreline of a Kauai bay. The Navy had ...

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