[Muddy168]

Sonar Concurs! I'm a 22 year, and still going, Navy Sonar Technician. I started my career pinging like crazy in the mid 80's and NO ONE said anything. We, the Navy, have been pinging away for decades...in every sea/ocean we sailed in. And no one said anything. It's in the last few years that things have become crazy. Now, before I can have my guys "go active" for training and to make sure our systems work like they're supposed to, we have to run a couple of different computer programs to see what mammals are historically in the area based on the time of year; record our data on where/when/how long/what frequecies we were active and send them to a central collection area for future reference (lawsuit litigation when a blue nose, beaked humpfinned whale fish beaches itself 500 miles away from where we were pinging. Oh...and the extra lookouts posted...even at night...in case we stumble upon a single whale/dolphin in the middle of the ocean. Rest assured our potential enemies have no such restrictions and practice their art much more realistically than we do ours. (steps off soapbox) Happy New Year from Iraq! Stay safe all...

[Gaffer]

I'll bet you a dollar to a donut that if you went back and reviewed all of the tapes of homo Jacques Cousteau (and now his 'son' Jacqueline Cousteau), you'd find them pinging the crap out of some school of fish, group of whales, etc.

Do as I say, not as I do, mais qui, after all it was for seeeance!