Marine biologists are examining whether U.S. Navy sonar threw the animals off course or whether they were poisoned before they became stranded in shallow waters.
The most conclusive link between the use of military sonar and injury to marine mammals was observed from the stranding of whales in 2000 in the Bahamas. The U.S. Navy later acknowledged that sonar likely contributed to the stranding of the extremely shy species.
Nearly 400 bottlenose dolphins, which normally live in deep offshore waters, were washed up along a 2 1/2-mile stretch of coast in Tanzania’s Indian Ocean archipelago.
Andrea Moore – All Headline News Staff Reporter
