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Letter: Letter

Published 18 July 1998

From Graham Finney

There is increasing evidence of marine mammals becoming disoriented by
existing sonic sources (such as sonar) and becoming lost or, even worse, beached
as a result.

Is this technology so vital that we must swamp the oceans with even more
confusing signals?

St Helens, Merseyside

Issue no. 2143 published 18 July 1998

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