Word: sonar
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...This near-sighted plan endangers the environment while also doing little to advance the United States’ goal of energy independence. The research necessary to pinpoint tracts of oil and natural gas suitable for drilling is incredibly invasive; for example, the process often disrupts whale migration because of sonar equipment. Such research will likely drag on for 10 to15 years, while destroying precious ecosystems...
...forgotten about the sharks. As we set up our little beach camp, I regaled our guests with a story about the legendary "Sub," a monstrous great white that, as some accounts have it, lived in False Bay in the 1970s and '80s. Sub was said to show up on sonar and enjoy munching outboards off the back of motorboats. Our fellow swimmers were likely just as mindful of the predators in the water: many were nipping off for lunch at a place called Kalkies, a nearby fish-and-chips shop decorated with poster-size photographs of great whites leaping...