1. Blue Water Aquatics Dive Center, Sunnyvale,Santa Clara, Scuba Equipment, pad...

... Scheduled for immediate deployment, the sonar system, known as Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active sonar (or "SURTASS LFA"), relies on extremely loud, low frequency sound to ...
http://www.bluewater-aquatics.com/ecology.htm

2. Seaflow: Learn More

... M. Stocker, 2002 (PDF) SURTASS for the Whole Earth M. Stocker, 2002 (PDF) Bahamas Strandings Ken Balcomb & Diane Claridge Bahamas Marine Mammal Survey, 2000 Sounding the Depths NRDC report, 1999 MP3's ...
http://www.seaflow.org/section.php?id=17

3. Is New Sonar Driving Whales Ashore?

... S. navy was granted a permit to deploy its frequency active sonar known as SURTASS LFA. The low-frequency Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System is a product of the Cold War. Its development to detect ...
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0805-04.htm

4. Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) A dangerous technology! - Information & Links

... In your letter, you said, "The SURTASS LFA system is viewed as vital to the national security interests of our nation and has received favorable recommendations from many independent experts and ...
http://www.songofhome.com/LFAS.htm

5. Surveillance Towed-Array Sensor System (SURTASS)

FAS | Intelligence | Programs | Collect |||| Search | Join FAS Surveillance Towed-Array Sensor System (SURTASS) The Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) is an element of the Integrated ...
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/surtass.htm

6. Scientific Solutions, Inc.

... Mammal Monitoring (HF/M3) From the site www.surtass-lfa-eis.com : The Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) has a string of underwater microphones, called hydrophones, towed behind a ...
http://www.scisol.com/hfm3.htm

7. News

... by the US Commerce Department in order to use their Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System, or Surtass LFA. This sonar system sends sonar waves of up to 215 decibels that have been shown to cause ...
http://www.newciv.org/new ...e/_a000076-000051.htm

8. ::: AAC - Advanced Automation Corporation :::

... is being used to produce Class 4 IETMs for several Department of Defense programs, including SURTASS, Sentinel, Ship Self Defense System (SSDS), AEGIS, Battle Force Tactical Trainer (BFTT), Fox ...
http://www.aac-usa.com/aimss.html

9. Bethesda News

... 5 Topics: Environmental Law, Law, EPA, Maryland Government, Maryland Initial Operational Capability for SURTASS Twin-Line 29A Towed Array Defence Talk | Friday Nov 18 SYRACUSE: The U.S. Navy has ...
http://205.217.154.74/city/bethesda-md

10. SAVE THE WHALES VIBEHEALTH ECO WATCH

... Scheduled for immediate deployment, the sonar system, known as Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active sonar (or "SURTASS LFA"), relies on extremely loud, low frequency sound to ...
http://www.vibehealth.com/savethewhales.html

11. Blue Whale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

... www.surtass-lfa-eis.com/Terms/. External links by Mike Johnson, Marine Natural History Photographer from EnchantedLearning.com from OceanLight.com at More Subjects form Category Cetacea Dolphin Gray ...
http://www.absoluteastron ...a/b/bl/blue_whale.htm

12. LOW FREQUENCY ACTIVE SONAR (LFAS) LITIGATION

THE SURTASS LFA THREAT The Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Act (LFA) Sonar is an extraordinarily powerful system the Navy seeks to deploy in 80% of the world's oceans ...
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~light/lfaindex.html

13. Dick Russell - Archives

Home Author Articles Archives Links Striper Wars Eye of the Whale Black Genius The Man Who Knew Too ...
http://www.dickrussell.org/archives.htm

14. Blue Planet: The Fading Songs Of Whales

... concluded the potential impact from the Surveillance Towed-Array Sensor Low-Frequency Active, or SURTASS LFA, was negligible, both in direct effects and in changing biologically important behavior such ...
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-05k.html

15. Acronyms Beginning With "S"

DoD and Information Technology (DoD/IT) Acronyms A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M ...
http://www.thedacs.com/da ...ay.hts?beginAcronym=S

16. http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil/body.cfm?Type=C&category=22&subcat=29

... navy.mil SPAWAR NEPA Links Advanced Deployable System(ADS) Naval Space Surveillance System(NSSS) Plasma Sound Source(PSS) Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active Sonar(SURTASS LFA ...
http://enterprise.spawar. ...category=22&subcat=29

17. Richard_Wisner

... U.S. Navy SURTASS / ASW program. o Chief Mate - NATHANIEL B. PALMER, U.S. Antarctic Program. o Captain - WECOMA, Oregon State University. o Captain / Chief Mate - MOANA WAVE, University of Hawaiíi. o ...
http://www.unols.org/jobs ...isner_resume0508.html

18. adtprog

... Will provide active undersea surveillance in littoral waters or open ocean pending the arrival of SURTASS LFA ships. Plasma-Arc Pyrolysis of Shipboard Solid Waste Demonstrate full-scale plasma-arc ...
http://www.milnet.com/pentagon/atd/atdprog.html

19. NPAL FAQ

... life. The Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar system was proposed in support of the Navy's national defense mission. It uses an array of sound sources ...
http://www.npal.ucsd.edu/permitting/NPAl FAQ/

20. Rugged Rackmount Power Distribution Units (PDU)

... Product P/N: ETI0003-1013 (Model: ETI0003-B/60/120) Rugged Rackmount PDU US Navy / Raytheon SURTASS, SPAWAR Standard Product P/N: ETI0003-1021 (Model: ETI0003-C/20/120) Rugged Rackmount PDU US ...
http://www.militarypower.com/rmpdu.htm

21. LaDuke position on Makah whaling - from GlobalCircle.net

... In terms of possible whale destruction by the US Navy, I would call for a cessation of the SURTASS LFAS Program (Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System utilizing Low Frequency Active Sonar). This ...
http://www.globalcircle.net/winonamakah.htm

22. lfaslinks.html

... specific to the vanishing habitat of the Okinawa Dugong which will likely be affected by Navy SURTASS LFA desire to bombard habitat with Low Frequency Active Sonar. The Sound and the Worry Okinawan ...
http://www.manyrooms.com/lfaslinks.html

23. Magical Dolphin - knowledge, offer for dolphin swim, dolphin vacation worldwide

... 1. endangerments underwater noise through Surveillance Towed Array Sensor Systems (SURTASS) / Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) If you know of further scientific findings and would like to share your ...
http://www.magicaldolphin.com/en/knowledge.htm

24. SF Environment: Commission Resolutions

... No. 004-02-COE SURTASS LFA Sonar March 19, 2002 Resolution No. 003-02-COE Solar Revenue Bond March 19, 2002 Resolution No. 001-02-COE Ocean Beach management issues January 15, 2002 2001 Resolution No ...
http://www.sfenvironment. ...olicy/resolutions.htm

25. Brooke's Cryptography page

... Chapter 9: Ocean Surveillance has info on SOSUS, RDSS & SURTASS, Classic Wizard/White Cloud, P-3 Orion, Holystone. On pg. 225 -227 is an account of the Glomar Explorer and HMB-1 with the latest info ...
http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/crypto.html

26. Navy admits sonar

... source of this acoustic or impulse trauma." Many of the whales were found to have suffered from hemorrhages near the ears. ENVIROWATCH'S ARTICLE ABOUT THIS TOPIC: SURTASS - LFA WHALES IN DANGER
http://www.envirowatch.org/DeadlySonar.htm

27. Whales and Dolphins in Plight, Conservation Through Education

... Regarding: SURTASS LFA Sonar As human beings we take the ability to navigate from visual cues for granted. For marine life living in the deep oceans, light's equivalent is sound. In the ocean waters ...
http://www.sailhawaii.com/campaigns.html

28. MIT Security Studies Program: ASW Conference Report

... In coordinated ASW, a very quiet opposing submarine might first be detected as a transient contact at long range by off board ocean surveillance systems like SOSUS or SURTASS. This information might ...
http://web.mit.edu/ssp/Pu ...s/ASW/ASW_Report.html

29. Sonar Testing and Whales -- Other Cetaceans

... www.surtass-lfa-eis.com/ http://www.earthreality.net/Stop_LFAS.htm http://www.nrdcaction.org/index.asp?step=2&item=1291 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/129527570 http://www.pacificwhale.org ...
http://www.soaringspiritw .../activism/whales.html

30. SSC San Diego Historical Overview

... USNS Stalwart was the first ship equipped with this capability, the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS). SURTASS was deployed in the early 1980s aboard a class of specially designed ...
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/anniversary/

31. OMI: LFAS Dates and Events

... 1996 Navy responds to NRDC challenge by committing to preparation of an environmental impact statement for routine deployment of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS ...
http://www.oceanmammalinst.com/lfasdates.html