Naval divers working to clear fishing nets from the HMAS Toowoomba's propellers were forced to exit the water when a Chinese warship began operating its hull-mounted sonar, in an incident labelled "unsafe and unprofessional".
Sonar is fucking terrifying. It’s lethal to marine life as well as humans, and the fact that we’re happy to spam it out into the ocean is an ecological tragedy.
If anyone else is interested in details on the effect of active sonar on divers, I found this https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/93222
Sonar is fucking terrifying. It’s lethal to marine life as well as humans, and the fact that we’re happy to spam it out into the ocean is an ecological tragedy.