THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY WHALES MASS STRAND

On 5 January 2014, 39 pilot whales stranded at Golden Bay. On 16 December 2013, at 01:07 AM when the pod was likely on a feeding dive,  a shallow magnitude 5.7 earthquake suddenly erupted in the seafloor off the West Coast of S. Island, N.Z. The focal point of the seismic shaking--defaulted to 10 km below the ocean's surface--might have actually been no more than 4-6 kilometers deep in the seabed. As shown by the beach ball outlines below, the direction of the first motion in this event was vertical. The P and S waves punched the rock/water interface with up and down motion similar to a gigantic piston, pushing and pulling at the bottom of the water column, generating potent changes in water pressure directly above the epicenter. Seismic over and under pressure disturbances cause barotrauma in the cranial sinuses and air sacs. Since this enclosed air is used as acoustic mirrors to funnel and channel sound waves, the injury immediately disables the biosonar system of all the...

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...