The Sonic Weapons of the Cruise Ship Industry

It is a bit amusing that something I have been talking about for years suddenly has become in issue for the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba.  They are complaining about tinnitus, fatigue, headaches, and blurred vision.  Oh my.  Take a read about the scientific exploits of French researcher Vladimir Gavreau.  They were astute enough to put two and two together.  That of itself is a small miracle.  I have been complaining about the effects of low frequency sound for two decades, but no one cares.  When the folks working in the U.S. Embassy in Havana are effected, suddenly it is a newsworthy story.  This is the way it works.  You can have the greatest product in the world, but until someone promotes it you will despair in relative anonymity.  That is the way it works.  It even says that in the Bible, you are only one person away from success.  You need that one person to say something good about you.  I write a lot of disparaging stuff, but most of it is true.  No one has called me about over any of it.  It is no fun being ignored, patronized, and exploited.  Jesus was persecuted.  I feel that way most of the time.  I must be a bad guy, but I'm not.  Put two and two together.  President Obama restored relations with Cuba for the first time since the failure of the Bay of Pigs.  Fidel died, and President Obama saw an opening.  For the first time travel was available to the isolated Communist island.  Who would capitalize upon such a scenario?  The answer of course is the cruise industry.  Consider the location of the embassy.  Now look at a map of Cuba and find the cruise terminal.  Find the relationship between the building of the embassy and the location of the terminal.  Imagine newly allowed cruise vessels docking in Havana for the first time in years.  Imagine large cruise vessels, very large cruise vessels such as the Oasis or Allure of the Seas.  Imagine four to six large diesel electric prime movers, often Wartsila, hidden deep in the hull of those vessels.  Imagine them running continuously having to provide electricity for that large ship.  Imagine a few of them, ships, docked with continuously-running Wartsila diesel-electric prime movers in close proximity to the U.S. Embassy.  Diesel engines inherently produce infrasound waves, because of their firing rate.  This is why we are disturbed by diesel engines, not because of their raucous knocking, but because the vibration of that torquey motor is carried long distances riding on the top of those low-frequency sound waves.  It is the same in radio transmission.  The actual content is encoded on top of a "carrier" wave, because they travel long distances.  Newly welcomed cruise ships are docking for the first time in Havana, and now employees at the embassy are experiencing symptoms of infrasound.  Go figure.