Looks like Elspode is
on the money .
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...the Navy conducted an intense active sonar exercise... emitting high-energy, mid frequency sonar at between 215 and 235dB... Sound at 235dB produces a pressure wave 300,000 times more intense than an 180dB sound, and 100 billion times more intense than a 120dB sound, which is like a loud motorboat engine.
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..."the killing is largely due to injurious resonance phenomena created by the U.S. Naval sonar system in the whales' cranial airspaces, tearing apart delicate tissues around the brains and ears."
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Now I understand why the animals are bolting to the surface with such reckless abandon. Gotta be a better way to do this. Why can't they use radar or something???