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Is it true that the LFAS tests conducted in Hawaiian waters in 1998 were next to the Humpback Whale Sanctuary?

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Is it true that the LFAS tests conducted in Hawaiian waters in 1998 were next to the Humpback Whale Sanctuary?

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Yes, the U.S. Navy’s LFAS testing was conducted on singing humpback whales in the most vulnerable of whale habitats: their nursery and mating grounds. These whales had just traveled 2,500 miles one way from Alaska to the warm, protected waters of Hawaii to give birth, nurse their calves and mate.