During the years between 1993 and 1999 I worked the sea, delivering sail boats from the California coast to destinations along the various Pacific costliness in North, Central, and South America; also the Caribbean, and Florida Keys; also to the Hawaiian Islands.
Now that I have been retired for more than twenty years, I have been concerned about all marine organisms and the impact of the greatly increased traffic of motor vessels; sonic surveys to improve nautical charts; oil platforms including piles being hammered through the ocean floor; human-caused acidification and temperature increases; trash dumping; factory fishing fleets; and other horrors. All of these are known with near certainty by oceanographers and marine biologists to be slaughtering sea life, from whales to coral reef to plankton.
My worry lead me to read the latest science literature, and to this film. What this film reports is not what marine biologists have reported.
The film insists the government agencies are saying the exact opposite of what government agencies *HAVE* been reporting: whale deaths have been increasing in the past, and are now decreasing while offshore wind turbines increase in number. The film forgot to mention these facts.
Looking at the published data, including the real data in this film, shows no correlation at all: the film even sowed graphs of whale deaths decreasing as offshore wind turbines increasing--- they show these charts many times, and while the graphs are on the screen showing no correlation, they told the audience the exact opposite of what they were showing.
After watching this film, I felt insulted: the producer expect viewers to be too dim of wit to actually look at the data they showed and think about the data.
The film does not include experts in the fields of marine biology: I assume doing so would have ended the film project before it was started.
Now that I have been retired for more than twenty years, I have been concerned about all marine organisms and the impact of the greatly increased traffic of motor vessels; sonic surveys to improve nautical charts; oil platforms including piles being hammered through the ocean floor; human-caused acidification and temperature increases; trash dumping; factory fishing fleets; and other horrors. All of these are known with near certainty by oceanographers and marine biologists to be slaughtering sea life, from whales to coral reef to plankton.
My worry lead me to read the latest science literature, and to this film. What this film reports is not what marine biologists have reported.
The film insists the government agencies are saying the exact opposite of what government agencies *HAVE* been reporting: whale deaths have been increasing in the past, and are now decreasing while offshore wind turbines increase in number. The film forgot to mention these facts.
Looking at the published data, including the real data in this film, shows no correlation at all: the film even sowed graphs of whale deaths decreasing as offshore wind turbines increasing--- they show these charts many times, and while the graphs are on the screen showing no correlation, they told the audience the exact opposite of what they were showing.
After watching this film, I felt insulted: the producer expect viewers to be too dim of wit to actually look at the data they showed and think about the data.
The film does not include experts in the fields of marine biology: I assume doing so would have ended the film project before it was started.