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OKIsItJustMe

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4. I'd worry more about large ships with immense spinning propellor blades.
Thu Jun 18, 2026, 02:27 PM
10 hrs ago
https://www.neaq.org/about-us/press-room/press-releases/right-whale-calf-seriously-injured-by-boat-propeller/


I imagine these buoys, bobbing up and down, pumping internal pistons and generating machinery would make a fair amount of underwater noise, and (unlike ships) they don’t have sharp keels cutting through the water at several knots

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