Posts

Why Did Pilot Whales Beach in the Florida Everglades?

Image
They stranded due to barosinusitis in the cranial air spaces. Mass stranding whales and dolphins dive deep practically everyday of their lives. Their single greatest threat during a dive is a surprize encounter with a series of rapid and excessive changes in the surrounding water pressures. Undersea earthquakes, volcanic explosions, impact of heavenly body with surface, military sonar, explosions, and geophysical air cannons are all capable to generating rapid changes in the surrounding water pressure and are thus the most dangerous encounters a diving whales can face. The part of their anatomy most vulnerable to excessive pressure changes while diving is their massive cranial air spaces (sinuses and air sacs). The air contained in these air chambers serve underwater as acoustic mirrors, bouncing sound around in a fashion to enable the function of biosonar. Busted, bleeding sinuses will not reflect or channel returning echoes, thereby disabling the ability of pod members to e

Seaquake Causes 6 Killer Whales to Beach in Iceland

Image
APRIL 30, 2013:   Six killer whales with seaquake-impaired biosonar were washed ashore in the early morning hours of April 30 just east of the village of Heiðarhöfn on the northern coast of Iceland's Langanes Peninsular. Two were dead by the time rescuers arrived. Two others were supposedly pushed back out to sea. These killer whales were likely from the local fish-eating group that feed primarily on herring and other schooling fish found in abundance off  the coast of Northern Iceland near Grimsey and Flatey Islands, and the Bay at Husivik  Killer whale pods are often spotted in these areas. Undersea earthquakes are also known to occur, especially near Grimsey Island.  This is exactly what happened eight times on 02 April, 27 days before the mass stranding. The seismic activity started with an extremely shallow 5.2 magnitude quake followed by 7 aftershocks: 2013-04-02   00:59:14.0   66.47N; 17.80W    2km deep;  5.2 mag. 2013-04-02   01:13:23.0   66.28N; 17.72W