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 :A fair-minded table would list the various possible causes of the events.  The present table does not do this - instead it states states that they are all linked to sonar use. 

 :Reflection seismology is not that different from some types of active sonar, and is thought by some experts to be an important cause of strandings by marine mammals (see International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (IWC-SC) Report - Annex K: Report of the Standing Working Group on Environmental Concerns).  Sometimes TV programmes on marine mammal strandings lump seismic surveys and military use of active sonar together. 

 :International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (IWC-SC) Report - Annex K: Report of the Standing Working Group on Environmental Concerns said: ""A report and database of strandings that have occurred in the Mediterranean Sea in the last 150 years will be submitted to IWC for publication in the monographic issue on beaked whales by the end of July [2004] (Podesta et al. In Press).""  Could someone find this please.  What does it say?  Surely a properly-constructed, objective database would a more reliable source than what we have now.  "