[USMA:40453] a whale of a letdown

[Paul Trusten]

The CNN story this morning was going really well metrically. The U.S. 
Navy personnel were talking about hundreds of meters' distance between 
the submarine and the whales. Even the CNN reporter talked about the 
distances in meters. Then, a representative of an organization working 
to protect the whales from the effects of Navy sonar remarked that the 
effect of the sonar on whales was "...a matter of it being kilometers 
away, not just a couple hundred yards."  Ouch!

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Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
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