Acoustic Ecology Institute news & research coverage - 2008* (*Last cited date Common Sense
Precautions or Undermining Sailor Safety? http://www.acousticecology.org/srSonarFactCheck.html)
Navy: The Navy has been insistant that its current operational procedures represent the ideal balance between environmental protection and training needs. They continually tout their "29 Protective Measures" as the state of the art in sonar safeguards, and note that cetacean deaths have been very rare. Since the beginning of 2008, the Navy has also more clearly articulated the ways that additional mitigation leads to difficult, and ultimately unacceptable, trade-offs in sailor preparedness.