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How can anyone read the following news articles from the recent past, and not feel a twinge of sadness or guilt. How can you?

• "President Bush Lets The Navy Use Sonar In Whale Areas." Despite undisputed evidence of the harmful and often fatal effects mid-range active sonar has upon whales and dolphins, President Bush overturned an injunction issued by a federal judge preventing the Navy from doing this. The White House claimed Bush did so in the interest of national security.
• "Japan Announces First Commercial Hunt Of Humpback Whales." Japan has sent its whaling fleet back to the Antarctic with plans to "harvest" thousands of whales including the endangered humpbacks, despite a 1966 ban by the International Whaling Commission. Japan claims this slaughter is in the name of scientific research.
• "Fishermen In Bangladesh Beat a Rare Dolphin To Death." An extremely rare Ganges River Dolphin is brutally clubbed to death and its body is dumped in the street by fishermen who are unable to convince a fish market to buy it.

And yet despite a continuing assault on these magnificent creatures who share our world they do not seek to harm us. In fact, just the opposite is true. There can be no better example of this than the article that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle several years ago, in which a humpback whale was freed from a deadly entanglement in a commercial fishing net by several divers off the coast of California. After being freed, the whale slowly circled back and affectionately nuzzled each diver before disappearing into the deeps. (See "Daring rescue of whale off the Farallones" by Peter Fimrite).

But what if there comes a day when whales and dolphins turn against us? What if they seek to destroy us as we continue to destroy them through either the brutality of the few, or what is perhaps worse, the apathy of the many? This is the premise of my novel titled The Tempest's Roar. Improbable yes. Impossible no. I urge you to read it and if you do, I promise that you will never again look upon the deep blue seas that surround you through the same eyes. Whether you choose to believe it or not, you are not the only intelligent beings on this endangered blue marble drifting through space, this place of terrible beauty and untold potential that you call Earth but their kind knows as Planet Ocean.

Best of luck,
R. A. R. Clouston

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