It's late here, and I'm tired, so I'm not sure quite how to phrase a comment on this other than to say that this sounds extremely immoral. We already cause enou

It's late here, and I'm tired, so I'm not sure quite how to phrase a comment on this other than to say that this sounds extremely immoral. We already cause enough noise pollution in the seas. To deliberately create it and to cause deliberate discomfort to intelligent creatures, just seems wrong to me. > The Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology – known as TAST – is designed to trigger the instinctive startle reflex most animals have when they hear a particular sound. It doesn't just cause discomfort, but it's intended to trigger an innate flight response and the associated anxiety to it. It's not just discomfort, these are social animals, and we're doing the equivalent of putting on a constant fire alarm to disrupt their daily lives and their intra-species interaction.