Miranda Bryan, writing in The Guardian »
Unlike the majority of humans, who see with their eyes, in the darkness of the ocean whales and dolphins see with sound. It is like going into a dark room and scanning the room with a torch, she says, only for somebody to suddenly turn on a big light. “You get blinded. And that’s how it is for the whales with noise – they get blinded.
“It’s not just a masking of the communication,” Vester says. “It’s also blinding their sensory organ of seeing underwater.”