The navy needs to train. Because we will fight as we train. Training is the key to winning the next sub war. Britain was almost defeated by subs during the early parts of WWII.
Today there are more and more new types of quiet subs that can threaten world trade.
We can scare off birds with loud noises when they get too thick in certain areas.
Why can't the navy use progressively louder sound waves in fixed places in the Ocean to drive wales and other sea creatures out of an area before the louder sonar training starts.
We can make a large array of sound devices that can be controlled by computers. These devises can move in a wave form from one area to another. Much like at a foot ball game when the crowd does the wave. This wave (sound can become) progressively louder with each wave. This would scare the sea creatures away without harm before the subs start using the very loud sonar devices.
Whales are important and need to be protected but so do the men who go to sea. Men will always be more important than the whales.
We had a Chinese sub surface within range of one of our Aircraft Carriers not too long ago and that must never happen again. Training with active sonar may be the only way to keep our ships and navy safe and out of range of enemy torpedoes and missiles.
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Originally Posted by tycho102
per the news item on the beached whale --
I am of the mind that we've got to stop using active sonar, or at least at the power levels necessary for sub detection. Obviously this puts operator training into a questionable position, because it's dozens of diesel boats we're going to have to defend against (if anything).
I really do think we've got dolphins and whales with either physical trauma or sensory confusion, as a result of sonar use. I've suspected this for a few years but I'm at the point where something needs to be figured out. I honestly don't trust the Navy to do an apolitical study of the issue, and there are too many "independent" universities and corporations who are not so independent as they profess, so I have doubts about the ability for an extensive investigation in open-water.
I think it's time we developed simulation abilities such as we currently do with nuclear warheads: computer simulations rather than actual detonation tests.
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