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Stop Deadly Underwater Sounds!!!
High intensity manmade underwater sounds are deadly dangerous
to dolphins, whales, fish, and other marine life!!!
There is grave
concern that the proliferation of these high intensity underwater
sounds pose significant threats to marine mammals, fish and other
ocean wildlife. These deadly manmade sounds are being produced by
air guns used for seismic surveys and oil and gas exploration, military
active sonars, and underwater demolition, all of which are filling
the seas. The problem with all these sounds is that some are so loud
and intense, they can injure, deafen, and even kill marine life.
Scientists agree, and a growing body of research confirms, that the
intense sound produced by these noise sources can induce a range of
adverse effects in marine mammals.
These
impacts, as listed by the US Marine Mammal Commission, include
death from hemorrhaging and trauma, hearing loss, stress,
disruption of feeding and breeding, and the abandonment
of traditional habitats, causing subsequent decreases in
marine mammal survival and productivity.
Loud
underwater sounds also effect fish and other marine life.
Several recent studies show harmful effects on fish from
exposure to sonar and air guns including auditory damage,
eye hemorrhaging, and decreases in already depleted commercial
catches.
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Moreover,
the Navy's own research shows adverse effects on human divers
exposed to active sonar including dizziness, memory loss, and
seizures.
The evidence is clear from the recent
mass strandings in the Florida Keys, North Carolina, Hawaii,
Puget Sound, the Canary Islands, and the Bahamas over the past
5 years. Manmade ocean noise pollution is a deadly problem and
there is a growing international consensus on regulating ocean
noise.
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Spain
has stopped all sonar testing exercises in the Canary Islands, the
Eurpoean Parliament has passed a resolution asking Member States
to regulate the use of High Intensity Active Sonars in waters under
their jurisdiction and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) had this
to say: "Military operations involving the use of high-intensity
sonar, explosive devices, and other intense noise sources pose both
lethal and sub-lethal threats to cetaceans."
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We are now calling on the United Nations to join this consensus
and take the lead in developing the legal mechanisms for the regulation
of underwater noise to ensure the health and safety of our oceans
and all marine life while ensuring the health and safety of ourselves.
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We are calling on the United Nations to join this consensus and take the lead in developing the legal mechanisms for the regulation of underwater noise to ensure the health and safety of our oceans and all marine life while ensuring the health and safety of ourselves.
On June 14th, 2006, we presented our film "Deadly Sounds in the Silent World II" to the delegates attending the United Nations meeting on the Law of the Sea.
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