{"id":10379,"date":"2012-05-11T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10379"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:40:44","slug":"navy-cites-increased-risk-of-sonar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10379","title":{"rendered":"Navy cites increased risk of sonar as the military gears up for RIMPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reported today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/newspremium\/20120511__Navy_cites_increased_risk_of_sonar.html?id=151091965&amp;id=151091965&amp;c=n\"><strong>&#8220;Navy cites increased risk of sonar&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a>(May 11, 2012) that the Navy has doubled its estimate of the number of marine mammals that could be harmed by powerful sonar tests in waters off Hawai\u02bbi and California:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Navy says its use of sonar and explosives could potentially hurt more dolphins and whales in Hawaii and California waters than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>The new research and more thorough analysis are part of an environmental impact statement covering Navy training and testing planned for 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy estimates its use of explosives and sonar may unintentionally cause more than 1,600 instances of hearing loss or other injury to marine mammals in one year.<\/p>\n<p>Its use of explosives may inadvertently cause more than 200 marine mammal deaths a year.<\/p>\n<p>The old analysis \u2014 covering 2009 through 2013 \u2014 estimated the service might unintentionally injure or kill about 100 marine mammals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of this is in preparation for the onslaught of military activity that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/22-nations-gear-up-for-rimpac-exercises-in-isles-1.176780\">RIMPAC, the largest multi-national military exercise in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reported today &#8220;Navy cites increased risk of sonar&#8221; (May 11, 2012) that the Navy has doubled its estimate of the number of marine mammals that could be harmed by powerful sonar tests in waters off Hawai\u02bbi and California: The U.S. Navy says its use of sonar and explosives could potentially hurt more dolphins &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=10379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Navy cites increased risk of sonar as the military gears up for RIMPAC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}