Yes. But in the same way being hit by a train causes hearing loss.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So what’s the effect? Hearing loss?
Fosheze@lemmy.world 6 months ago
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 months ago
[www.huffpost.com/…/killing-with-sound_b_2744864](200+ decibel pressure wave.)
tourist@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So about half the volume of my upstairs neighbours
Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
…at 4am on a Wednesday
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 6 months ago
Lucky bastard.
treesquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Minotaurs?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
In the Navy’s latest environmental impact statement draft, they admit that the sonar exercises planned for 2014-2018 may unintentionally “harm marine mammals 2.8 million times over five years.” This estimate is up about 150,000 instances a year from their EIS statement of 2009-2013. Included in this estimate are two million incidents of “temporary hearing loss,” and 2,000 are targeted for permanent hearing loss.
So is that how it went? How have things gone in the ten years since this article was written?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
We’ve been heating up the oceans so all the marine life will die and not have to worry about sonar anymore.
marmotworks@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
On account of being dead? Yeah.
Enzy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s one of the symptoms, yes.
Sianna@feddit.de 6 months ago
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Yes, we won’t be hearing from them again.
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 6 months ago
www.huffpost.com/…/killing-with-sound_b_2744864
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
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Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
So what about fish and sea life?
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 6 months ago
About the same.
It’s cool though. The navy says they don’t mind.
18107@aussie.zone 6 months ago
And people wonder why whales beach themselves.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 months ago
Yeah. I had presumed the sonar was just annoying, not body destroying.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 6 months ago
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Who fucking cares?
-USIC
fox2263@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well…I imagine they kind of disappear into a mist
Khrux@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
Fun fact, sperm whales can generate a sonar click at 230dB. Decibels are a logarithmic scale so increasing by only a few dB is basically double the volume.
A sperm whale may swim past you, think you’re interesting and give a little click to scan you, and basically stun or kill you instantly.
Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 6 months ago
Wow. For real ???
You learn something new everyday.
But yeah, I never saw divers getting stunned/ killed even when diving near whales.
It could be that it never happened, but that’s like such a high variance to have never happened.
force@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i believe it’s 6 dB is 2x the sound pressure?
mcmoor@bookwormstory.social 6 months ago
Is there any example? I’ve never heard an organism (fish?) killed by whale sound wave like this
Khrux@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
I couldn’t find any report of a death but here is a credible source that it’s possible. Sperm whales are particularly rare of course, and intelligent enough to probably know it’s deadly, so it’s no surprise it’s rare.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Relevant popularmechanics.com/…/chinese-warship-injures-au…