NAVAL exercises could have contributed to the mass stranding of 26 dolphins on the Cornish coast a year ago, according to a scientific report.
Navy exercises last June involved surface ships and a submarine.
According to the study led by Zoological Society of London (ZSL) researchers, sonar used in the exercises was “highly unlikely” to have directly caused the dolphins to beach themselves.
But the activities of the Navy could have been a contributing factor in pushing the marine mammals close to shore and put them at risk of beaching.
