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Navy approves plan for sonar training off Hawaii (AP)

Navy approves plan for sonar training off Hawaii 
    (AP)
This image and provided by the US Navy shows Sonar Technician 1st Class Mark Osborne supervising Sonar Technician 2nd Class Randy Loewen, left, and Sonar Technician 3rd Class Roland Stout, right, as they monitor contacts on a Surface Anti Submarine Combat System, aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Momsen off the coast of Southern California in Jan. 2008. The Navy is challenging Hawaii's authority to protect whales by restricting the use of sonar during training exercises, environmentalists and military representatives say.(AP Photo/US Navy - James R. Evan)

AP - The Navy has adopted a new plan for training in Hawaii waters that it says will allow it to accelerate some exercises and hold them more frequently while continuing to limit the effects of its sonar on marine mammals.
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