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KILLER WHALE EATS TRASH

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dead Orca on the rocks read the real reason all whales mass strand Sadly, this killer whale had been struggling for some time in the surrounding waters before she was finally found washed ashore. After one successful rescue attempt to return it to the water on December 22nd, the poor orca was found washed up on Lookout Rocks, Western Cape (South Africa) on December 24th, 2015. As you can see below, the surf can get pretty rough at Lookout Rocks. To swim around in that heavy surf in a weaken state, a killer whale needs to have a good functioning biosonar system if it expects to avoid being washed into the rocks. In fact, with all the air bubbles and sand kicked up by the heavy surf, a healthy killer whale would never have swam within 500 meters of this shoreline. Killer whales don’t go where their acoustic sense of direction does not work. They simply turn around and go where their biosonar functions just fine. That it ended up stranded on the rocks, is proof that it ha...

Seaquake Kills Young Killer Whale

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On 27 February 2014, scientists cleared the Canadian Navy in Sooke's death. According to Deafwhale Society's earthquake theory , the Canadian Navy was not responsible. Sooke was found dead on a beach just north of Long Beach, Wash. on 10 February 2012. Her body was battered, bloodied and bruised, and appear as if it were hit on left side by a shock wave or a powerful blast. Sooke  was a 3-year-old member of the Southern resident killer whales, which make their seasonal home in the San Juan Islands, 42 miles south of Vancouver City (Canada). On 4 February 2012, at 12:05 pm local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred along the Continental drop off, 50 miles west of Vancouver Island, and 146 miles upstream from the entrance to the Juan de Fuca Strait. It is likely that Sooke  was swimming south only a few hundred feet from the vertical edge of the drop off when she was hit broadside by a powerful shock wave generated during the seismic process (open this pa...

nine orcas killed by seaquake

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On Tuesday, 11 February 2014, nine orcas (killer) whales swam into the rocky shore inside Te Waewae Bay, South Island New Zealand In my opinion, formed after 50 years of trying to understand mass beachings, the biosonar system these orcas use to echonavigate was disabled by sinus barotrauma induced by disturbances in the surrounding water pressure generated above the epicenter of an extremely shallow earthquake off the west coast of South Island. The quake occurred at  8:54 pm local time on January 28th, 2014. The European-Mediterranean Seismology Group listed this event at 4.7 magnitude , focused only 2 kilometers below the ocean's surface . Other seismic stations reported this quake at 5+ mag. New Zealand GeoNet reported it as a strong earthquake at 5.4 magnitude; however, they listed the depth at 33 km, which is the standard default depth used by GeoNet for submarine earthquakes. As you can see at the bottom of GeoNet's page, most reporting stations indicated a depth...