Seismic

Are noisy oceans to blame for beached whales?

Posted by Fiona Nicholls — 23 May 2016 at 12:36pm - Comments

Sperm whales beached on the Dutch Island of Texel, Jan 2016.

Noise is the most invisible of all the man-made threats to the ocean, but to whales who ‘see’ by hearing, they simply cannot escape it.

Article tagged as: beached whales, beaked whale, CSIP, DCS, decompression sickness, deep diving, marine mammals, mass stranding, noise, noise pollution, oceans, pilot whale, Seismic, sonar, sperm whale, the bends, whales

Norway ends seismic testing after pressure by environmental organisations

Last edited 21 August 2014 at 1:26pm

21 August, 2014

Seismic testing in the Barents Sea, commissioned by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, has been stopped four days after Greenpeace exposed the testing programme in the Norwegian TV2 news. The Greenpeace ship Esperanza approached the research vessel Artemis Atlantic on Wednesday when it changed course towards Hammerfest.

Article tagged as: arctic, esperanza, norway, oil, Seismic

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