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  1. National Marine Fisheries Service. 2000. Annual Report to Congress: 1999-2000 Administration of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), Silver Spring, Maryland. 105 pp (available on-line at http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/readingrm/ MMPAannual/1999_2000_mmparep.pdf )

  2. National Research Council. 2003. Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

  3. D'Amico, A., and Verboom, W. eds. 1998. Summary Record and Report, SACLANTCEN Bioacoustics Panel, La Spezia, Italy, 15-17 June 1998. SACLANT Undersea Research Centre. Available at http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil/nepa/whales/bioacoust.cfm.

  4. Frantzis, A. 1998. Does acoustic testing strand whales? Nature 392(6671): 29.

  5. Evans, D.L., and England, G.R. 2001. Joint Interim Report Bahamas Marine Mammal Stranding Event 15-16 March 2000. Department of the Navy and Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Washington, D.C. Available at http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/PR2/Health_and_Stranding _Response_Program/Interim_Bahamas_Report.pdf.

  6. Jepson, P.D., Arbelo, M., Deaville, R., Patterson, I.A.P., Castro, P., Baker, J.R., Degollada, E., Ross, H.M., Herraez, P., Pocknell, A.M., Rodriguez, F., Howie, F.E., Espinosa, A., Reid, R.J., Jaber, J.R., Martin, V., Cunningham, A.A. and Fernandez, A. 2003. Gas-bubble lesions in stranded cetaceans. Nature 425(6958): 575-576.

  7. Fernandez, A., Edwards, J. F., Rodriguez, F., Espinosa de los Monteros, A., Herraez, P., Castro, P., Jaber, J. R., Martin, V. and Arbelo, M. 2005. "Gas and fat embolic syndrome" involving a mass stranding of beaked whales (Family Ziphiidae) exposed to anthropogenic sonar signals. Veterinary Pathology 42: 446-457.

  8. Finneran, J.J. 2003. Whole-lung resonance in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and white whale (Delphinapterus leucas). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 114(1): 529-535.

  9. Fern‡ndez, A., Arbelo, M., Deaville, R., Patterson, I.A.P., Castro, P., Baker, J.R., Degollada, E., Ross, H.M., Herr‡ez, P., Pocknell, A.M., Rodr’guez, E., Howie, F.E., Espinosa, A., Reid, R.J., Jaber, J.R., Martin, V., Cunningham, A.A. and Jepson, P.D. 2004. Pathology: Whales, sonar and decompression sickness (reply). Nature 428(15 Apr 2004).

  10. Piantadosi, C.A. and Thalmann, E.D. 2004. Pathology: Whales, sonar and decompression sickness. Nature 428(15 Apr 2004).

  11. Moore, M.J. and Early, G.A. 2004. Cumulative sperm whale bone damage and the bends. Science 306 (24 December 2004): 2215.

  12. Crum, L.A., and Mao, Y. 1996. Acoustically enhanced bubble growth at low frequencies and its implications for human diver and marine mammal safety. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99(5): 2898-2907.

  13. Houser, D.S., Howard, R. and Ridgway, S. 2001. Can diving-induced tissue nitrogen supersaturation increase the chance of acoustically driven bubble growth in marine mammals? Journal of Theoretical Biology 213(2): 183-195.

  14. Crum, L. A., Bailey, M. R., Guan, J., Hilmo, P. R., Kargl, S. G., Matula, T. J. and Sapozhnikov, O. A. 2005. Monitoring bubble growth in supersaturated blood and tissue ex vivo and the relevance to marine mammal bioeffects. Acoustics Research Letters Online 6(3): 214-220.

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