Royal Navy Sonar Blamed For Deaths Of Four Whales
February 25, 2007 @ 11:35 AM (EST)
Source: Independent.co.uk
Secret sonar, used by the Royal Navy in a Nato exercise, has killed four whales, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
A post-mortem on four Cuvier's beaked whales, stranded on Spain's Almeira coast at the end of January, points to the sonar, which was being used by a British warship in the area at the time. It is the first time that the Royal Navy has been implicated in whale deaths.
The Ministry of Defence yesterday admitted that the sonar "has the potential to cause problems for the marine environment".
An investigation by The Independent on Sunday has revealed that military sonar is killing thousands of whales. Some experts suspect that it disorientated the northern bottlenose whale which got lost in the Thames in January...
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