Whales may bump Navy sonar training field out of Fla. site

Virginia Pilot Online ^ | September 29, 2008 | Kate Wiltrout

[Jonah Hex]

The Navy has decided that a controversial sonar training range it proposed building off North Carolina's coast would be better located off Florida, where its East Coast sub-hunting helicopters are based...The border of the proposed 625-square-mile range would come within a few dozen miles of calving grounds of the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

[Jonah Hex]

Forget our sailors, save the whales! (sigh)

[Slings and Arrows]

*boop* the whales. They’re not citizens.

[DBrow]

It’s much cheaper for the Chinese and Russians to pay environmentalists to do this, than it is to build stealthy submarines.

[Red Badger]

Move it to Panama City, FL! We have a Navy training base already here!...........

[YOUGOTIT]

No need to worry if Hussein wins he is going to destroy the Military so we will have no Navy or Army or Marines maybe a plane or two but NO military.

[JimRed]

We don’t want to harm the whales, but we have to test our stuff. Solution: find a sound that whales hate but does not harm them (Orca calls, maybe, or heavy metal music?) and use it to encourage them to exit the area.

Remember the story about the convenience stores plagued with teenagers “hanging out”, which started playing classical music so the kids would flee? Same deal!

[Jonah Hex]

We don’t want to harm the whales, but we have to test our stuff. Solution: find a sound that whales hate but does not harm them (Orca calls, maybe, or heavy metal music?) and use it to encourage them to exit the area.

Enya, 24/7?

;-)

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I wonder if the Russians care about the whales when their submariners train.