Sentences with phrase «airgun blasting»

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Despite this, Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the government of Belize have decided to move forward with a plan that, according to the World Wildlife Fund, «involves using airguns to blast shock waves through the water that are powerful enough to penetrate the seafloor» less than one mile from the UNESCO Heritage site of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

Companies searching for oil also use seismic airguns, which typically produce blasts of underwater sound comparable to a jet engine every ten seconds.