https://nitter.1d4.us/SaltyFrenchBoi/status/1673739774446780431
Oh good, now you know what cetaceans go through with 10x more hearing ability.
sufficiently powerful sonar will make a human body explode military sonar hits in the 200+ decibel range and will destroy a person
Now imagine that we're doing this all the time all over the world's oceans and suddenly it makes sense why orcas are attacking yachts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-military-sonar-kill/
In 2003, NRDC spearheaded a successful lawsuit against the Navy to restrict the use of low-frequency sonar off the coast of California. Two years later a coalition of green groups led by NRDC and including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the League for Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, and Ocean Futures Society upped the ante, asking the federal courts to also restrict testing of more intense, harmful and far ranging mid-frequency types of sonar off Southern California’s coastline.
In filing their brief, the groups cited Navy documents which estimated that such testing would kill some 170,000 marine mammals and cause permanent injury to more than 500 whales, not to mention temporary deafness for at least 8,000 others.
And that's only just from testing off the coast of california.
They are using yachts as practice before they can take on Nuclear-Powered Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines
Maybe the whales possess those lost nuclear subs that were never found.
I think it's interesting that sperm whales have a similar dynamic. Researchers need to get close to them to take recordings, but their calls are in the 230 decibel range where sound becomes a physical pressure wave.
edit: Oh wait, it's sperm whales: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-sperm-whales-deadly-call-94653/
Seems like I had no idea how a sonar actually works, didn't know it had to be so loud.
I remember that vid. Someone pointed out it’s not a military sub and would not have dangerous sonar on board.
Yeah, it's a tourist sub in Oahu. Only operates at like 100 or so feet and gives tours of the artificial reef.
The divers absolutely knew it was there because it does scheduled trips every day.
Now that I've learned that sonar can kill people and animals I'm upset that I've never seen a movie or read a book where this happens. Maybe a Little Mermaid style aquatic fantasy world where submarines are eldritch terrors. Or a submarine is the villain in a slasher movie about deep sea divers. Endless possibilities.
There ocean is scary as hell. Never trust any water deeper than your waistline. Untold horrors reside there.
