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NURC Marine Mammal Risk Mitigation
The Marine Mammal Risk Mitigation Project
For 10 years, the Centre has been working to understand the relationship between sound in the ocean and marine mammal behaviour. A series of whale strandings in the 1990s and early 2000s highlighted the need to understand this relationship. Although navies throughout the world use sonar during tests and training exercises, little was known about the relationship between active sonar and marine mammal strandings. The Centre took a proactive approach to this issue and began a decade of research in and around the Mediterranean starting in 1999. Learn more about the project.
