So what’s the effect? Hearing loss?
A minor oopsie
Submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
So what about fish and sea life?
Khrux@ttrpg.network 11 months 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 11 months ago
Fosheze@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes. But in the same way being hit by a train causes hearing loss.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 11 months ago
[www.huffpost.com/…/killing-with-sound_b_2744864](200+ decibel pressure wave.)
tourist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So about half the volume of my upstairs neighbours
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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 11 months ago
On account of being dead? Yeah.
Enzy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s one of the symptoms, yes.
Sianna@feddit.de 11 months ago
ded
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yes, we won’t be hearing from them again.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There was a diving team outside.
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One. Ping. Only.
Enzy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
M–m-multikill
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ACK
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
extreme look of distrust intensifies
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are shark chum now.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Is that the Nautilus? SONAR hasn’t looked like that in a while. Also, they dead.
DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That diving team just fought Sindel and lost harder than MK9.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
porque dead?
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
gotcha, thanks!
ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 months ago
Good news is you know exactly where they are.
Enzy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Here and there
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the liquified corpses are going to stay inside their wetsuits
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I would like to know where you exactly are
Gilles_D@feddit.de 11 months ago
Above you. And now you’re sandwiched 😏