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Beached Pilot Whales Force Europe to Stop War Games

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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

40 PILOT WHALES BEACH ON NORTH ANDAMAN ISLAND

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STRANDING CAUSED BY UNDERSEA EARTHQUAKE SOUTH OF NICOBAR ISLAND October, 2012:  Forty pilot whales beached themselves on the 21st of October. They died in the sand inside Elizabeth Bay on North Andaman Island on the western banks of the Andaman Sea. This is the first time that such a large number of whales beached in the area.   On 29 September, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurred South of Nicobar Island at 6.180N;92.764E. The quake was listed at 14km deep +/- 12km and well within the whale-dangerous zone. Since whales injured by rapid and excessive changes in ambient water pressure lose their ability to navigated immediately after the injury, their swim path is always downstream and under direct control of the surface currents. This means there must be clear evidence that the source of the barotraumatic injury is indeed upstream from the beaching site, and that the distance traveled downstream corresponds with the speed of the current and the swim speed of th