[creggur]

I'm sure I'll be in the minority here on this, but I gotta agree with them on this. The military needs to train, and they need to train the way that they are going to fight. It would suck to be in a situation where you were up against an enemy submarine and the sonar guys weren't 100% on their gear or techniques.. Human life is more important than animals, especially when it's the guys who are living 24/7 to protect and defend this country. I tried to find any articles providing proof whatsoever than sonar actually hurts marine mammals, but couldn't. It sounds like a lot of conjecture to me.

I remember once when I was in the Navy we had to wait 2 extra days to pull in to home port after being gone on a 9 month deployment because it was Right Whale mating season off of Jacksonville. We all wanted to man the .50 cals and end the whale situation once and for all..