STOP SEISMIC AIRGUN BLASTING

Seismic airguns are used to find oil and gas deep beneath the ocean floor. The airguns are so loud that they can disturb, injure and even  kill marine life. They can also harm commercial fisheries and disrupt coastal economies. These blasts are repeated every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days to weeks at a time. Seismic airgun blasting could injure as many as 138,000 whales and dolphins and some could be killed.  It will also disturb millions more, according to government estimates.

Seismic airguns are towed behind ships and shoot loud blasts of compressed air through the water that travel miles into the seabed, which reflect back information about buried oil and gas deposits. These blasts harm marine mammals, sea turtles, fish and other wildlife.

Oceana is working to halt the use of seismic airguns, and stop the expansion of dangerous offshore drilling.

If these blastings are not stopped a lot of our endangered marine mammals are in danger. These include

DOLPHINS

 

Image: fisheries.noaa.gov

SEA LION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: fisheries.noaa.gov

Source: Oceanacampaign