> Hawaiian environmental groups are in court to try and stop Navy
> preparations to deploy the low frequency active sonar system. The new
> SURTASS sonar system, which the Navy wants "to deploy in 80% of the
> world's oceans," is so powerful that a diver in the water during a test
> "emerged with symptoms a doctor described as comparable to acute
> trauma." During 1998 trials, observers noted that whales fled the
> testing area and two whale and one dolphin calves were found abandoned,
> an "unprecedented" occurrence. The U.S. Marine Mammal Commission cited
> "possible hazards" from the sonar, including "death
> from lung hemorrhage," hearing loss, disruption of essential behaviors
> such as feeding, breeding, nursing and communication.
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> Mangrove Replenishment Initiative
> http://mangrove.org/
> riley at mangrove.org
> Ph 321-722-2955
> Fax 321-722-2963
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> f-identification, and deepened my appreciation for the democratic
> achievements of bourgeois society (as flawed and hypocritical as they
> are).
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> Doug
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