So what’s the effect? Hearing loss?
A minor oopsie
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someguy3@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 2 years ago
There are no noise-cancelling headphones to stop the U.S. Navy’s 235-decibel pressure waves of unbearable pinging and metallic shrieking. At 200 Db, the vibrations can rupture your lungs, and above 210 Db, the lethal noise can bore straight through your brain until it hemorrhages that delicate tissue. If you’re not deaf after this devastating sonar blast, you’re dead.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
So what about fish and sea life?
Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 years ago
Fun fact, sperm whales can generate a sonar click at 230dB. Decibels are a logarithmic scale so increasing by only a few dB is basically double the volume.
A sperm whale may swim past you, think you’re interesting and give a little click to scan you, and basically stun or kill you instantly.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fosheze@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yes. But in the same way being hit by a train causes hearing loss.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 years ago
[www.huffpost.com/…/killing-with-sound_b_2744864](200+ decibel pressure wave.)
tourist@lemmy.world 2 years ago
So about half the volume of my upstairs neighbours
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
In the Navy’s latest environmental impact statement draft, they admit that the sonar exercises planned for 2014-2018 may unintentionally “harm marine mammals 2.8 million times over five years.” This estimate is up about 150,000 instances a year from their EIS statement of 2009-2013. Included in this estimate are two million incidents of “temporary hearing loss,” and 2,000 are targeted for permanent hearing loss.
So is that how it went? How have things gone in the ten years since this article was written?
marmotworks@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
On account of being dead? Yeah.
Enzy@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That’s one of the symptoms, yes.
Sianna@feddit.de 2 years ago
ded
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
Yes, we won’t be hearing from them again.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 years ago
There was a diving team outside.
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 2 years ago
One. Ping. Only.
Enzy@lemm.ee 2 years ago
M–m-multikill
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 years ago
ACK
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It remindsh me of the heady days of Shputnik and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the shound of our rocketsh.
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 2 years ago
extreme look of distrust intensifies
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 years ago
They are shark chum now.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 2 years ago
I read that as "shark cum" and was about to figure out a way to hit someone across the back of their head over the internet.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Hey that could be a whole new superhero backstory; a group of divers get hit with a nuclear submarine SONAR pulse and turn into shark cum.
I’m copyrighting the idea right now.
Triple_B@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Is that the Nautilus? SONAR hasn’t looked like that in a while. Also, they dead.
DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That diving team just fought Sindel and lost harder than MK9.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
porque dead?
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sonar use actual sound waves to find things, and the intensity of it is so great that it can kill you. Basically, your brain explodes from how powerful it is.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
gotcha, thanks!
ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 years ago
Good news is you know exactly where they are.
Enzy@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Here and there
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think the liquified corpses are going to stay inside their wetsuits
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
I would like to know where you exactly are
Gilles_D@feddit.de 2 years ago
Above you. And now you’re sandwiched 😏