1. GeoChannel ´Global Nature News, Research, Education & Media Networkª :

... Following the second incident a US federal court granted a preliminary injunction blocking the worldwide use by the navy of low-frequency active sonar technology, designed to detect quiet submarines ...
http://www.geochannel.org ...&file=article&sid=435

2. CNN - Groups fight Navy's low-frequency sonar - April 16, 1998

... the U.S. Navy's Low-Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) because they fear it will harm all marine mammals. The system has been under development for the past decade in response to a new generation of "quiet ...
http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/ ...ales.sonar/index.html

3. ISVR - Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton

... He then moved to Australia to work on low frequency active sonar. In 1994 he returned to the ISVR as a research fellow studying the active control of fan tones from aircraft turbofan engines. In 1996 ...
http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/STAFF/staff9.htm

4. Best Wildlife and Animals websites!

... Threats to Whale Life: Navy Sonar ñ A new type of high intensity sonar recently approved for the navy called LFAS (Low Frequency Active Sonar) has ignited a debate over its impact on marine mammals ...
http://www.care2.com/channels/ecoinfo/wildlife

5. News

Sound Kills Background LFA: July 20, 2002 Low Frequency Active Sonar is a device used to detect silent running submarines. What they do is blast noise into the ocean and then listen for a ping that ...
http://www.usagainstwhali .../makah/soundkills.htm

6. Naval Year In Review

... Concern over the damaging effect that low frequency active sonar has on marine mammals. Significant naval operations this year included: Exercise Summer Pulse 04 in which the U.S. Navy put its Fleet ...
http://www.nosi.org/review

7. Navy used sonar near whale beaching - National - smh.com.au

... The US Natural Resources Defence Council two years ago blocked through the courts the use globally of its navy's low-frequency active sonar. The council last week joined a new case against mid ...
http://www.smh.com.au/art ...839026.html?from=top5

8. Low Frequency Active Towed Array Sonars

... Since modern submarines have become quieter also active sonar systems have come to the fore as assets for detection purposes. In the topic Low Frequency? Active Towed Array Sonars all research is ...
http://www.tno.nl/defensi ...requency_active_towe/

9. Pacific Whale Foundation Action Alerts

... S. Navy's misguided Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar plan "GOOD NEWS! NAVY AGRESS TO LIMIT LFA SONAR USE Update: In early October 2003, the Navy agreed to a permanent injunction against LFA sonar. The ...
http://www.pacificwhale.org/alerts/LFA.html

10. Jim's Jems Newsletter Edition of 1/29/2003

... com/jd ------------ One for the Environment ------------- A federal judge has sided with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) and blocked the US Navy from deploying low frequency active sonar ...
http://www.jimdonovan.com ...oadcastD20030129.html

11. al-Qaeda or al-CIA-duh!

... one of the more interesting early analyses Peeling the Onion of 9/11 Dear Friends, I have always reserved this email list for information related to low frequency active sonar. Today, however, is a ...
http://www.oilempire.us/qaeda.html

12. How to Help Marine Mammals - Marine Mammal Conservancy (MMC)

... it! LFAS (Low Frequency Active Sonar): The US Navy is presently testing an apparently intense and lethal sonar in the world's oceans. Recent events and evidence suggests that this program is highly ...
http://www.marinemammalco ....org/how_to_help.html

13. Little Pearls - STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT

... We hope to prompt people to care more actively, and to learn how to protect endangered ocean life from human threats like low frequency active sonar, dangerous commercial fishing practices, pollution ...
http://www.littlepearls.org/upcoming.html

14. EDUCATION, ECOLOGY & GLOBAL CONCERNS, videotapes audiotapes videos cassettes...

... U.S. Navyís proposed deployment of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active sonar (or ìSURTASS LFAî). This new sonar system to detect quiet enemy submarines would blast one of the ...
http://sound.photosynthes ...cology_Education.html

15. FR Doc 05-16938

... I.D. 080405A] Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Navy Operations of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active Sonar AGENCY: National Marine ...
http://www.eswr.com/frr/n082505b.htm

16. Vibrational Voyage Archives for 2002

... In the name of our nation's defense,the US Navy proposes to radiate up to 80% of the world's oceans with this extreemly destructive low frequency active sonar (LFAS)." The discussion was joined by ...
http://www.ncrising.com/past_shows_2002.html

17. NRDC: Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar

... cuts." Reining in LFA Sonar Since 1994, when NRDC began investigating rumors that sound experiments were taking place off the California coast, LFA (Low-frequency Active) sonar has been of particular ...
http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/sonar.asp

18. WHY WHALES STRAND!

... In this sense, seaquakes have a lot in common with the US Navy's new Low Frequency Active Sonar. Both can generate cavitation down to about the same depth. Since cavitation can quickly erode the face ...
http://www.deafwhale.com/stranding/

19. SURTASS LFA

The Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) is a new sonar the U.S. Navy needs for national security. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National ...
http://www.surtass-lfa-eis.com/

20. Breaking News from Blue Dolphin Alliance and its Affiliates

... detection technology is said to be inadequate. Enter Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System., Low Frequency Active (LFA), which blasts low-frequency (100 -1000Hz) high-decibel noise and interprets ...
http://www.bluedolphin.org/News/usnavy.html

21. Ocean Defense International

... _Join Us _ Press Releases _ Whaling _ Donate _ About Us We Oppose the Deployment of Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) Ocean Defense International is strongly opposed the deployment of Low Frequency ...
http://www.oceandefense.org/lfa.htm

22. Rainbow Friends home page

... The Cetacean Litigation is a suit filed in Federal Court by the Cetacean Community to prevent President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld from deploying Low Frequency Active Sonar without ...
http://www.rainbowfriends.org/home.htm

23. STOP LFAS!

... default.asp Low Frequency Active Sonar is in the process of being deployed worldwide by the US Navy and NATO to supposedly detect enemy submarines. Recently, the use of high intensity sonars has been ...
http://www.cetacean-nation.com/LFAS.html