I think there is more than enough evidence to call for a moratorium on sonar use in the Salish Sea. Anyone want to join me in this? — Alf
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Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research says that the young female killer whale, known as L112 and Sooke, which died recently didn’t die of disease or starvation. “Clearly the animal was blown up.” Balcomb says the signs of trauma on the body and on the head and, more importantly, among the tissues in the rear of the killer whale’s jaw are strikingly similar to the injuries that he witnessed in a group of stranded beaked whales several years ago in the Bahamas. He said those whales stranded themselves on a beach shortly after a military ship traveling in the same vicinity passed by with its sonar engaged. Scott Rasmussen at the Journal of the San Juans reports:
Death at sea: speculation swirls over sonar
http://www.sanjuanjournal.com/news/142522205.html