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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Horwitz, Joshua.     Subjects     Reynolds, Joel.     Balcomb, Kenneth C., 1940-     United States. Navy -- Environmental aspects.     Whales -- Stranding.     Whales -- Conservation.     Whales -- Effect of sound on.     Sonar -- Environmental aspects.     SOSUS -- Environmental aspects.     Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography.     Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Horwitz, Joshua.       by title:      War of the whales : ...       by call number:      639.9795 H824w     Search the Web     Horwitz, Joshua.     Reynolds, Joel.     Balcomb, Kenneth C., 1940-     United States. Navy -- Environmental aspects.     Whales -- Stranding.     Whales -- Conservation.     Whales -- Effect of sound on.     Sonar -- Environmental aspects.     SOSUS -- Environmental aspects.     Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography.     Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

War of the whales : a true story / Joshua Horwitz. by Horwitz, Joshua. Simon & Schuster, [2014] Call #: 639.9795 H824w Subjects Reynolds, Joel.   Balcomb, Kenneth C., 1940-   United States. Navy -- Environmental aspects.   Whales -- Stranding.   Whales -- Conservation.   Whales -- Effect of sound on.   Sonar -- Environmental aspects.   SOSUS -- Environmental aspects.   Environmentalists -- United States -- Biography.   Lawyers -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781451645019 (hc.) 1451645015 (hc.) Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Description:  xviii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm Notes:  Maps on lining papers. "The true story of the underwater collision between life in the ocean and an acoustic storm of military sonar"--Jean-Michel Cousteau, Ocean Futures Society. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-399) and index. Contents:  Prologue -- Stranded. The day the whales came ashore ; Castaways ; Taking heads ; The loneliness of the long-distance beachcomber ; In the silent service ; The stranding goes viral ; "Unusual morality event" -- Acoustic storm. The lone rangers of the environment ; Joel Reynolds among the friendlies ; The whale coroner arrives ; Depth charges ; Beachside necropsy ; Cease and desist ; Acoustic storm ; The sonar that came in from the cold ; Heads that tell tales -- The reluctant whistle-blower. A mind in the water ; The killer turned tame ; A call to conscience ; The dolphins that joined the Navy ; Mr. Balcomb goes to Washington ; The mermaid that got away ; In the valley of the whales -- Whales v. Navy. God and country v. the whales ; "It is so ordered" ; Counterattack ; The admirals take charge ; The highest court in the land ; Endgame -- Epilogue. Summary:  The tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the U.S. Navy's best-kept secrets: SOSUS, the shore-based submarine detection system, initially based in listening posts at Cape Hatteras, Delaware, Nantucket, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia (Canadian Forces Station Shelburne), and Iceland, using long arrays of passive high-fidelity hydrophones (underwater microphones), coupled with an optional active submarine detection system, Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFA), based on discovery that very low frequency sound [100-1000 Hz] can travel great distances and detect quiet submarines. The LFA system floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound--and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 639.9795 H824w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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