[Coral-List] Air Guns on Social Media
Eugene Shinn
eugeneshinn at mail.usf.edu
Mon May 4 12:26:45 EDT 2015
Thanks Doug, I scanned through those "peer review" articles. They all
take negative slants and none describe controlled experiments or hard
data. What we need to know is: Evidence of cause? What distance from
source? What species are most susceptible and to what frequencies and
from what distance? The problem is if we had studies that produce hard
evidence nay Sayers would claim the studies were funded by an oil
company (or is it the Koch Brothers). As you know dead whales wash up on
a regular basis and the causes are never clearly determined. You can bet
a navy or seismic vessel will be blamed if there has been one in the
vicinity. I was once involved in saving 30 false Killer whales at Dry
Tortugas (the large male leader was the only one that died). The pod had
followed him in to the beach. The survivors finally left the beach with
a lot of help from all of us swimmers. All had been tagged and blood
samples taken while they were beached. They were later found to have
beached and died in the 10,000 islands. The cause was never determined.
Autopsy of the dead one showed nothing other than the usual presence of
trimatodes in the ear canals. After retirement I served 3 years on the
MMS science committee. It appeared that most anti offshore drilling came
from people who basically did not want to see any oil drilling. They
have deep feelings, especially whale folks. Expect anti offshore
drilling off the East coast to grow. Especially if scientists join in on
Social Media. Gene
No Rocks, No Water, No Ecosystem (EAS)
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