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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
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Originally Posted by Letum
Well, it's not quite as clean cut as "Save the whales OR protect the country".
There are plenty of compromises that can be made to achieve a happy medium.
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What are they? Why aren't they being employed? |
Things like continuing general sonar practice everywhere, but avoiding places
frequented by whales when conducting big Naval war games. (avoiding them
in the planning stage anyway).
Or more basic things like considering moving else where to conduct sonar drill
when a pod of whales has been seen next to the ship.
There isn't much sense in conducting sonar drill if there are 30+ whales only a few
hundred feet away
if you can move else where to do the same drill.
"Why aren't they being employed?"
I don't know! I would suspect that whales are not on the Navy's priority list at all.
Clearly the navy has other more important priorities, but whales should be on the list
even if they are right on the bottom.
That said, I don't think it would be a huge loss to the ecosystem if a few specis of
whales died out. I doubt any one would notice at all unless they where looking for
whales!