THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY WHALES MASS STRAND

NEAR STRANDING NORTHWEST OF ICELAND Whale Dangerous earthquake swarm:  A series of 11 mid-ocean ridge earthquakes in the Greenland Sea induces barosinusitis in a pod of ~200 pilot whales. ( Read how undersea earthquakes cause sinus barotrauma in an entire pod of diving whales. Starting on the night of 13 July and continuing until 18 July 2012, eleven volcanic-tectonic earthquakes struck along the riff valley of the mid-ocean ridge system 56 km (34 miles) NNW of Jan Mayen Island in the Greenland Sea.   http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278610 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278611 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278612 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278613 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278614 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278615 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=278616 http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.

On 31 December 2011, a whale mother and male calf were found dead on Opape Beach in the Bay of Plenty at the north end New Zealand's North Island. The seagulls had already pecked their eyes out by the time the park rangers arrive d . Although clearly in the beaked whale family—the most mysterious marine mammal family—scientists thought the pair were relatively well-known Gray's beaked whales. That is until DNA findings told a shocking story: the mother and calf were actually spade-toothed beaked whales ( Mesoplodon traversii ), a species no one had ever seen before. Scientists have known of the spade-toothed beaked whale for over 140 years. Scientifically known as Mesoplodon traversii , the species was named after Henry H. Travers, a New Zealand naturalist who collected a partial jawbone that was found on  Pitt Island  in 1872.  Pitt Island is part of the Chatham Islands group situated about 800 miles downstream from the Bay of Plenty.A damaged