They said sounds, like sonar used to trace submarines, may frighten whales to the surface too quickly, leading them to suffer decompression sickness - or the bends - which is similar to the ...

This means that marine scientists will have to review prior work attempting to understand how whales respond to sonar, underwater echo sounders and other sounds and noises made by ships and seacraft.

The UKs Royal Navy reportedly mistook a marine mammal for the Red October British ships spent several days tracking down a ...

Animals that hunt in the dark with sonar may not be able to tell junk from squids BEAUFORT, N.C. -- To whales that hunt with soundwaves in the lightless depths of the ocean, a torn plastic party ...

But fear of what — what were the whales avoiding? Over the past 40 years, cumulative research across the globe has revealed a coincidence between naval sonar testing events and acute ...

This onslaught of noise, which far exceeds the Navy’s own safety limits for humans, can have a devastating effect on marine species — especially whales, who use their keen sense of hearing for almost ...

A ‘Blue Whale’ submarine weighting 5.5 ton has been deployed to monitor saboteurs working for Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Developed by Israel and released by Germany’s navy, the unmanned drone is ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service analysis finds that sonar, explosions and speeding vessels would harm more than 200 humpback whales, 300 minke whales and 10 blue whales each year. But the rule ...

This story and others related to the impacts of military sonar on marine mammals are recounted in engaging detail by Joshua Horwitz in his upcoming book, War of the Whales, to be published by Simon ...

According to Elta, the five-tonne Blue Whale can motor at 8mph ... The complex design includes a “Synthetic Aperture Sonar” to capture high-resolution images of the seafloor and detect mines, and a ...

The Royal Navy spent several days investigating a suspected Russian stealth submarine off the coast of Scotland, only to ...