War of the whales
by Joshua Horwitz · first published 2014
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"The tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the U.S. Navy's best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound--and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth"--Amazon.com.
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There's a pretty good book called "War of the Whales" by Joshua Horwitz that discusses the work of whale researcher Ken Balcomb to convince the Navy to limit sonar operations.
on “US Navy limits 'whale-harming' sonar in Pacific” ↗If this article is interesting to you I highly recommend War of the Whales. It is an interesting look at Cold war science+politics and the environment. A decent part of the book is about SOSUS. https://warofthewhales.com/
on “The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory” ↗You should check out "War of the Whales" if you are interested in the interaction between whales and naval training exercises.
on “337 whales dead in Chile in one of history's biggest beachings” ↗…reporters word for it. The decision is here: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/07/15/1... For those wondering,yes, this is the latest development in the string of cases described in War of the Whales. The APA sounds kind of boring if you read the Wikipedia summary. But when you consider cases like this or what to do with DoC and ICANN it is actually pretty interesting, especially for technology or…
on “Court restricts U.S. Navy use of whale-killing sonar” ↗