THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY WHALES MASS STRAND

June 01, 2015: The pod was first spotted at 4.40 pm on Monday (June 1st) off the coast near the city of Staffin, which is situated on Scotland's Isle of Skye. Mike Merritt took a picture of the pod. lost pilot whales spyhopping trying to determine her location Notice that the pod is not swimming in any direction, or diving and feeding. They are sort of drifting along in a relatively calm sea. One whale can be seen raising his head out of the water trying to see what's going on around and near the pod. This is called spyhopping and is strong indication that the pod has no acoustic sense of direction. The loss of their biosonar was most likely due to a previous barotraumatic sinus injury caused by exposure to seismic waves above the epicenter of an earthquake along the Reykjanes Ridge ( see below). Spyhopping behavior is common in pilot whales prior to beaching themselves ( link ). They are obviously trying to see a way out of the jam they are in. The weath

April 25, 2013:    EUROPE’S largest military exercise was forced to cancel yesterday after three whales stranded on an Easter Ross beach in Scotland. War games that had been due to take place near Portmahomack (Dornoch Firth) as part of Exercise Joint Warrior were halted to avoid distressing the pilot whales, which had stranded overnight. Fears were raised that the exercise may have been to blame for the beaching.  However, according to the Seaquake Hypothesis advance by the Deafwhale Society, Inc. , these 3 whales, and likely more, were injured a month earlier by two undersea earthquakes that ripped apart the seabed about 2,500 km upstream from the stranding beach.  The quakes occurred along the undersea volcanic mountain range known as the Reykjanes Ridge, 1162 km southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland.  The area is a well-known habitat for long-fin pilot whales. NEWS AND VIDEO LINK The two shallow-focused quakes, one and one-half hours apart, caused the rocky bottom to bounce up an