400 Dead Dolphins Wash Up in Africa

by **nomo** » Thu May 04, 2006 2:18 pm

<img src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/images/060501_dolphins.jpg"/> <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0501_060501_dolphins.html?source=rss">news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0501_060501_dolphins.html?source=rss</a> May 1, 2006—Hundreds of dead dolphins mysteriously washed ashore Friday on a beach popular with tourists on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. As shown in this photograph taken Saturday, the water along a two-and-a-half-mile (four-kilometer) stretch of coast on the East African island turned reddish with the blood of the dead bottlenose dolphins. Villagers and fishermen said they buried the remains of 400 animals. Scientists don't know what killed the bottlenose dolphins, which usually live in deep offshore waters. "It is quite strange for so many animals to strand," said Douglas Nowacek, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who has studied dolphin deaths. "These animals are normally quite able to cope with stressors." Local residents speculated that low tide combined with heavy rains and wind might have disoriented the marine mammals. An early examination showed the animals' stomachs were empty. They either had not eaten for a long time or had recently vomited. Further tests will look for traces of poisonous substances, such as "red tide" algae. Experts will also examine the dolphins' heads to assess whether the animals might have been affected by military sonar. A U.S. Navy task force routinely patrols along the East African coast as part of counterterrorism operations. Loud blasts of sonar may disorient or scare marine mammals, many scientists believe, causing the animals to surface too quickly and suffer the equivalent of what divers call the bends, or decompression sickness. "Naval sonar has been associated with toothed whale deaths, and the most well documented case was the mass stranding of beaked whales in the Bahamas in 2000," Nowacek said. "To my knowledge, though, sonar activity has not been associated with such a large number of deaths" as this one.

by **NavnDansk** » Thu May 04, 2006 2:43 pm

dolphins, whales and giant squid to be washed up on the shores of most coastlines in the world. earthportals, writes about this in their lawsuit against the US Navy, NATO voluntarily stopped the sonar, at least in 2000. Whale Deaths Immediately Follow US Navy Sonar Buoy Tests In Bahamas <a href="http://sightings.com/politics6/testbaham.htm">sightings.com/politics6/testbaham.htm</a> <a href="http://www.geotimes.org/jan03/NN_whales.htm">www.geotimes.org/jan03/NN_whales.htm</a> <a href="http://www.reformation.org/nuclear-tsunamis.html">www.reformation.org/nucle...namis.html</a> After the December 26 thermonuclear weapon was detonated in the Sumatra Trench, Australian authorities knocked back all requests for seismic traces of the event, using stupid excuses like "our equipment wasn't switched on", "Australian seismographs cannot record above 8.0 on the Richter Scale", and "You must ask the American authorities about that". In other words, Australian officials were ordered to lie to the Australian public. This was all forgotten on March 28 this year, when Australian government geophysicists excitedly displayed the seismic trace of the Sumatran 8.7 earthquake, thus proving their equipment could read any magnitude, and furthermore proving they blatantly lied back in December. ---The mortality coincides with US Navy exercises in the area; the exercises appear to have involved explosives detonation, although active acoustics work *may* have been conducted also. There is no confirmation that the latter occurred in this area, or whether LFA activity was involved. (LFA = Low Frequency Active acoustics, a highly controversial anti-submarine technology which has been the subject of much debate in the marine mammal field. Recall that a NATO LFA exercise in the Med is widely believed to have been responsible for a mass mortality of beaked whales a few years ago). .... We must first face the seriousness of the threat LFAS poses to marine life and ourselves. For only then, will we break our silence and engage in clear but gentle action with the urgency this issue deserves. We must then let our Congressional representative, ultimately responsible for this program, know of its possible consequences and insist that they stop all forward movement of this program until it can be proven that it will not cause the massive destruction concerned non-government scientists and citizens fear. We must then insist on extensive and highly monitored necropsies of currently stranded mammals, including full ear exams <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\"> -- since such tests could expose possible sonar exposure. Only by having this information will we know if the sonar technology is connected to these deaths as many environmentalists suspect. ASK YOUR LOCAL ABC AFFILIATE TV STATION TO AIR: "WHEN THE WHALES STOP SINGING" Resonance, as engineers well know, can dramatically contribute to shear forces that can be quite damaging -- wings tear off airplanes, bridges gallop, and buildings collapse, etc. due to unanticipated resonance phenomena which can afterwards be explained by simple physics and mechanics. I wondered about tissue damage caused by resonance, and I specifically asked what the Navy calculations for lung resonance frequencies of a beaked whale were at various depths. [You sidestepped my question by responding generically to my comment with response 4-4.15]. ... PATTERN OF STRANDINGS THAT MAY LINK TO LFAS ACTIVITY: EUROPE - In February, 2000, 100s of dolphins began washing up on European shores.<a href="http://www.earthportals.com/beachedwhales.html">www.earthportals.com/beachedwhales.html</a> The Killing of Earth's Whales by Sonar US Navy, and NATO test Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) system to detect diesel and nuclear submarines.The information you are about to read in this article is not pleasant, and is very sad. It questions the wisdom of the scientific quest, and makes you want to stop this unbelievable madness.

by **NavnDansk** » Thu May 04, 2006 2:45 pm

From the photo it looks like the dolphins were bleeding before they died. Earthportals and the other sites you can find by googling Tsunami + Beached Whales talk about the bleeding from orifices of the dolphins and whales because of the sonar blasts.

by **Sepka** » Thu May 04, 2006 4:11 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> From the photo it looks like the dolphins were bleeding before they died.<hr></blockquote> That may be blood from people cutting up the dolphins for meat. Rueters reported crowds butchering the dolphins, and Zanzibar's Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Products felt compelled to caution the public that it's a bad idea to eat animals that have died from unknown causes. That looks sort of like a large yellow plastic cooler that the one fellow is sitting on, too. -Sepka the Space Weasel

by **NavnDansk** » Thu May 04, 2006 9:16 pm

After I posted last message, I remembered reading the other day that the people were cutting out the livers or kidneys to use as .... something, water proofing maybe, no mention in the AOL story about eating the dolphins but someone on the AOL messageboard was very upset about the "mutilation". If the dolphins are already dead, I wouldn't have an objection. Some of the very sad stories on Earth Portals which gives extensive information about the beaching of dolphins and whales and the court case against the Navy and the movement including videos to stop it said that many of the dolphins were bleeding from the ears and other orifices and in Japan, the people were trying to comfort and help the dolphins but it was too late to save them but when they washed up near shore, they were still suffering. One of the objections in Earth Portals was the disinfo by the Navy and others that testing had been done but the ears had not been checked and that was one of the main evidences to prove that the sonar had caused the deaths of these mammals.

by **twister12** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:46 pm

Last week, I caught a glimpse of a report on TV on this, most likely on CNN (either that or Fox). I CLEARLY saw a closeup shot of blood from the ear of one of the dolphins. If someone wanted to, they could try and find a screen grab of this. In my opinion, its eardrum was burst from a massive underwater acoustical blast.

by **darkbeforedawn** » Sat May 06, 2006 12:29 am

So Twister, do you think that's why there was a quake and Tsunami warning last week?

by **twister12** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:03 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>So Twister, do you think that's why there was a quake and Tsunami warning last week?<hr></blockquote> Well, probably not, for some basic reasons. First of all, after some basic research, the dead dolphins started washing up around April 27/28. The Tonga quake was May 3rd: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Aftershocks rock South Pacific near Tonga; no tsunami warning issued 15:48:30 EDT May 4, 2006 NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) - A series of aftershocks measuring up to magnitude 6.0 rocked the South Pacific island country of Tonga into Friday morning, a day after an even more powerful quake triggered a tsunami warning. A tsunami warning was not issued Friday, and there was no sign of damage from the aftershocks. The U.S. Geological Survey said at least six aftershocks occurred near Tonga, while others were recorded near Fiji and Vanuatu. The strongest aftershock occurred at 12:25 a.m. local time at a depth of almost 38 kilometres. It was located 135 kilometres east-northeast of Nuku'alofa and 2,100 kilometres northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. On Thursday, a magnitude-7.9 quake struck about 150 kilometres south of Neiafu, Tonga, and 2,150 kilometres north-northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. A tsunami warning was issued for as far away as Fiji and New Zealand, but it was lifted within two hours after ocean buoys recorded a tsunami of less than 60 centimetres.<hr></blockquote> Secondly, as is obvious by the previous news article clipping, Tonga in the South Pacific is nowhere near the island of Zanzibar, just off Tanzania, on the eastern coast of Africa. <img src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/embassy_bombing/images/kenya_tanzania_map.gif" style="border:0;"/> <img src="http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Tonga/images/TongaM.jpg" style="border:0;"/> However, I also did some research into finding more confirmation of what I saw, and I have firmed my belief that it was reported on CNN (on April 28 and 29). The transcript from the 28th interestingly detail the moderately clueless anchor at least asking about the sonar possibility but the so-called expert discounted it. (Which is why the image on the screen and what the 'expert' said struck me in a cognitively dissonant way). Their web report on the 29th, however, contradicted their on-air reporting and ran a headline asking if the Navy's sonar did it. But alas, even though quite a few CNN video reports are posted online, the dolphin reports are not among them. I also tried searching the AP and Reuters photo archives available online. Most news articles on this ran an AP photo, so they had someone there. Reuters had a stringer there as well. I found just a little over a dozen photos, but none of them were closeups in such a manner as to show what I saw (most were 'perspective' shots). Oh, and the total number of dolphins washed ashore was 600-800. Interestingly, tissue samples of the dolphins were sent to Sweden for analysis. Specifically, internal organ and ear samples. So, we may see some news on this. Hope that helps. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=twister12@rigorousintuition>twister12</A> at: 5/6/06 2:08 pm

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