Beached Pilot Whales Force Europe to Stop War Games
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 rock...