Subject:  Low Frequency Active Sonar (Karow)(Anon)..
Date:     Thu, 18 Nov 1999 041554 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Dear Anon:

......It is not just the U.S. Navy ... that is disdainful of the 
rights of property owners ... it is the whole of the U.S. Government --
the White House, the Congress, the FCC, etc.....

When (and if) we ever get the EMF matter "on track" -- my next list
could be one to defend the rights of property owners.....  Those are
being encroached upon with wild abandon by a society that measures
all things in terms of "expediency" for the moment's gratification --
no long range vision at all!!....  (Then, of course, there is the U.S.
Federal Tax Code -- that needs "fixing."  Or the U.S. health system???  
I will simply have a long menu of potential "causes" when [and if...]
EMF is ever "fixed.")

Cheerio......  A "frightening" tale below.  Still unanswered, who is
fighting to protect the whales????

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
                       NEW!!!  Website 
...................People are more important than profits.................

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:52:41 +0100
From: Anon......
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: Low Frequency Active Sonar (Karow)..

Dear Roy:  


On Lopez Island we have been in a struggle with the Navy at NAS Whidbey for
years.  I believe the Low Frequency Sonar program is based there.  Here in
the San Juans there have been several odd beachings and deaths of Orca
whales.  The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor could fill you in on the
particulars.

In 1994 I was building a house on the south end of Lopez, about 8 miles
across the water from NAS Whidbey.  I had lived on another part of the
property for 7 years.  One day a terrible, low trembling roar began and it
didn't stop.  It would go on for 8-12 hours per day.  I called the base.
They said nothing had changed.  They were doing nothing.  Finally after
weeks of this I was able to get my Congressman ( Al Swift) to contact the
base.  They finally admitted that their test cell had broken and they were
pointing their jet engines out to sea (directly at us) and were testing
them. In the mean time I was becoming fairly frantic.  I found that I could
be on my property for about 3 hours . After 3 hours mentally I was losing
it.  The Low Frequency I was feeling felt like my organs were vibrating.
When I recall it I can still feel the fear of not being able to get away
from that noise.   I contacted acoustic experts everywhere.  Finally I
ended up with a Boeing engineer who talked about the use of Low Frequency
Sonar being used as a weapon.

We tried everything from legal avenues to political pressure to
embarassment to make them stop.  I ended up abandoning my property. . . the
house is still unfinished.  I live on another part of the island ( 20 miles
from the base).  The noise finally did stop . . . I have always wondered if
the broken test cell was really the whole reason for the noise.  I learned
in that encounter that the Navy has no problem lying to civilians. They
view everything in terms of numbers.  If 25 % of the public is upset about
noise, no problem, unless you are one of the 25%.

There has been some press on the sonar program locally. I'll see if I can
locate it.  What Ms. Schmidt wrote about "disregard for whale and marine
population"  seems plausable to me. . . since I know from my continuing
experience with them that that describes their position regarding the
civilian population.

Thanks for what you do.  I deeply appreciate the quality of conversation
and questioning  that you put out on the mailing list.  It certainly
assists tiny groups like ours!

Warm regards,

Anon (by request)





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