Humpback Whales -- Navy's Sonar Testing Near Hawaii Threatens Survival Of Whales During Breeding
Editor, The Times:
It has been brought to my attention that the U.S. Navy is conducting programs known as the low-frequency sonar active tests in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands, during the breeding season of the humpback whales.
Many whales have been killed. The sounds from these frequencies cause the baby whales to go deaf and a deaf whale is a dead whale. These sounds are loud enough to do permanent damage to living tissue, resulting in internal bleeding, ruptured ear drums and sometimes other fatal effects.
I am hoping someone at your paper could do an article on this story, since I know there are a lot of native Hawaiians such as myself who now live in Seattle and would be outraged by this needless act our government is doing to such a magnificent creature. Tory Sadoff
Kirkland