Latest illustration for a story in the National Law Journal about whales and other marine mammals and the awful effect military sonar has on them. The Supreme Court ruled on this recently, rejecting a lower court's ruling prohibiting the practice. The Navy's argument was that emergency readiness outweighed the need for a sonar-free ocean. My drawing shows a plaintive whale, assaulted by a sonic barrage. I converted his tale to a human ear with two ideas. one to demonstrate the problem, the other to reflect the deafness of the decision. I've also attempted to enhance the image by contrasting the quiet aquatic world of the whale, with it's streaming light, against the bands of sonar descending from above. In the end, the whale bends to the shape of this sonar, having to graphically accept his noisy fate. Poor leviathan.