Subject: Low Frequency Active Sonar (Karow)..
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 234546 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi everybody:
.......In recent weeks, I have received from a number of you messages
warning about the following subject. I have not forwarded your messages
because I am in doubt about their validity. I possess no "inside"
information about the following, but I do not doubt that the
high energy, high decibel active sonar described is possible......
In this age of technological wonder (and excess!!), mankind is
capable of destroying every form of life on this earth -- including
man, himself..... And the folly described in the below message ...
suggests that 'man' is stupid enough to do just that!!!
If the U.S. is capable (and willing) to pursue the following ... then our
feeble efforts, here, to "light a candle about the hazards of EMF" are
surely doomed.... We are too late.... The humanity we seek to save ...
is beyond redemption......
(Hans -- WHY is there no identifying address information on the following
message....????...... Absent such, I consider its authenticity is in
doubt....)
If it is true and correct ... then God save us ... and forgive us.......
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: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:47:10 -0800
From: Hans Karow
To: "'rbeavers@llion.org'"
Subject: Low Frequency Active Sonar
Roy, this might interest your list.
Hans.
Subject:
Low Frequency Sonar
Date:
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:04:43 -0800
Greetings, Please take a few minutes to read this message from me. It is
long but I am seriously concerned and want to ask your help.
This evening while returning from Portland to our home after being out for
dinner with friends, I had occasion to be listening to a talk radio program
centered out of Oregon regarding the Navy's use of Low Frequency Active Sonar
in the deepest parts of the oceans, reaching out over 1000 miles in all
directions. This is being addressed by the US Congress on November 22, 1999,
(next week) as to whether the Navy can proceed with this program. As I
understand this, this program consists of the Navy's (which has invented and
is sponsoring) use of a new powerful sonar to scan the ocean bottom. The
problem is that the usage's of this type of low frequency sonar is causing
the death of whales and other marine life by the thousands and they refuse to
accept the responsibility for it. The Navy already is using an excessively
high decibel (as much as 150 decibels) sound waves in the ocean and it has
the power to kill. It is documented [reported] that the Navy has been
using sound for weaponry for many years for what they refer to as
National Security protection. It has [reportedly] been used to blow
submarines out of the water and any living creatures (including humans)
that have the misfortune of being inside, are also killed with no telltale
markingsthat can be discerned by autopsy.
This is fact. (For any of you who have a background in the Navy, you know
what I am talking about.) [......We don't know that this is
fact....guru...]
The concerns today are that the Navy has just recently applied for and
received tentative permission to raise the decibel level (by one million) of
the sonar so that it can be heard and tracked even further across the ocean
floor. The overall impact is: a strength of this caliber causes implosions.
It would similar to being compressed to death.
The Navy had to comply with the Impact Environmental Statement law, by
(requesting permission) creating a plan statement explaining the overall
effect of what they are doing, to the environment, and presenting it to the
people of the US by way of Congress. Until this statement is approved by
Congress (the hearing is next week) they are not allowed to proceed.
However, the Navy has already begun the testing even though the hearing is
not for another week. This suggests strongly that the Navy fully expects to
be granted congressional approval. The general public is supposed to be
allowed to voice their opinions on all such matters before Congress makes a
decision. This is why the law requires an Impact Environment Statement in
the first place. You and me and all the rest of us, are free to offer our
input before the government decides.
Doctor M. Green of the Ocean Mammal Institute is a professor of Marine
Biology and has been studying and tracking the movements of whales for over
15 years world wide. [.....NOT a well identified
authority!!!....guru....]
Doctor Green maintains that this Low Frequency Active
Sonar has been damaging whales to the point of fatality. Those whales that
most of us saw a while back on TV, who were beaching themselves in Australia,
were trying to get away from the sonar sound waves. It was during the exact
time that the Navy had begun the first test on this new sonar. [......DO
we know this is true?????......guru......]
The sound waves are so strong and powerful that they are killing marine
life and damaging the ability of whales to be oriented, much like our
inner ears are damaged when we experience broken ear drums. The whales
are desperately trying to avoid these sonar sounds, to the point of
allowing themselves to be beached to get away from it.
Whales have incredibly sensitive hearing and can
hear for miles. Can you imagine being forced to hear sounds so loud in your
home, that it breaks your ear drums and you cannot get away from it? You
cannot get outside and you cannot stop the sounds...you cannot turn them down
and they never cease. Driving you into insanity would be a blessing.
Sonar carries for miles under the ocean, and this is the exact reason the
Navy is employing this new Low Frequency Sonar. But they do so with total
disregard of the whale and marine population of our earth. These animals are
at the mercy of the US Navy. Doctor Green thinks the Navy has been
misinformed, that the input they have received on the dangers have been
incorrectly reported.
Please go to these sites and read what is going on. Your help is needed
immediately! I implore you to write to your congressmen and women and ask
them to please reconsider allowing the US Navy to continue this experiment.
Once we destroy the life in our oceans, it is only a matter of time before
all life as we know it will cease to exist. This we all learned in
elementary school. Our food chain and our very existence depends on the
marine life of our oceans.
Please, help by responding. Thank you.
Shanara Schmidt
[.......I note that Shanara gives us no address information?????.....]
http://www.oceanmammalinst.org/
http://www.oceanmammalinst.org/actions.html
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