Seismic air gun blasting will:

Open the door to offshore drilling.
Generate the loudest sound in the ocean every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day for a year or more. The sound can be heard for up to 2,500 miles away.
Interfere with marine mammals’ ability to navigate, find food, communicate and migrate.
Drive fish from their natural habitat.

Seismic survey results will not:

Be made public. The results are proprietary.
Tell us “what is out there.” If seismic surveys were accurate, Shell Oil would not have drilled a $7 Billion dry hole in the Arctic.

Watch the two-minute animated film below from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Every U.S. coast where offshore drilling has been permitted has suffered billions of dollars of damage from oil spills. Every coast.
Since 2016, 497 offshore oil accidents have been reported in the Gulf of Mexico alone.
California banned new offshore drilling in the 1980s. Yet offshore rigs and infrastructure dating to the 1950s continue to leak and spill. A pipeline leak shut down state beaches on Memorial Day in 2015, followed by a methane leak in October that caused the evacuation of 11,000 people for months.

The “shale revolution” has made the U.S. the world’s largest natural gas producer (overtaking Russia), and the world’s largest global oil producer (overtaking Saudi Arabia).
We export over a million barrels of crude daily to countries like China and India.
Chances are any oil and gas found in the Atlantic will be exported.
Atlantic drilling not about energy “dominance” – it’s about oil companies having access to potential reserves to increase their revenues and profits via exports.

Some Gulf Coast beaches were closed for four years following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, with an estimated $23 Billion loss to the tourist industry.
Coastal residents aren’t alone in their real estate investments: residents in just four Upstate areas (Greenville, Spartanburg, Rock Hill and Greenwood) own property valued at nearly $700 Million in Georgetown and Horry counties alone.
Tourism spending is 26 times higher in South Carolina coastal counties than in Louisiana's ruined Gulf parishes.
Appraised values along the Atlantic coast are significantly higher than Gulf properties subject to decades of oil and gas industrialization and pollution.

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 people, spewed over 207 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, polluted and destroyed over 1,100 miles of beaches and marshlands, and killed countless tens of thousands of birds and marine life.
Yet, just one year after causing the worst man-made disaster in U.S. history, BP had profits of over $25 Billion.
The explosion was caused by “gross negligence and human error.”
Under the Trump Administration, the industry has succeeded in rolling back post-Deepwater regulatory safeguards to save money and produce oil and gas more quickly.

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Official testimony, white papers, and public comments by SODA spokesperson Peg Howell, former offshore oil engineer:

Drums of Death - Could seismic blasting disturb highly toxic chemical and radioactive waste dumped into the Atlantic for decades?

Where did the oil go? GulfSeaGrant.org looks at aftermath of Deepwater Horizon disaster.