So what about fish and sea life?
Comment on A minor oopsie
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 6 months agoThere are no noise-cancelling headphones to stop the U.S. Navy’s 235-decibel pressure waves of unbearable pinging and metallic shrieking. At 200 Db, the vibrations can rupture your lungs, and above 210 Db, the lethal noise can bore straight through your brain until it hemorrhages that delicate tissue. If you’re not deaf after this devastating sonar blast, you’re dead.
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
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.
ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I thought that was because of the windmills?
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
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
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