THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY WHALES MASS STRAND

A Lesson in Understanding Why Whales Beach: My stranding theory indicates that beached whales and dolphins swim blindly into the shore because they are suffered a previous barotrauma-style injury that damaged their cranial air spaces and knocked out the sense of direction. Rarely is there a particular stranding that illustrates this any more than the one that occurred last night in Otago, New Zealand. Attempts to stop a 4m-long pilot whale from beaching itself at Kaka Point, Otago, New Zealand failed. The whale was eventually left to die on the rocks. This whale was suffering for a severe pressure-related injury (barotrauma) that damaged its cranial air spaces and caused this animal to lose all sense of direction. This whale resides in a pod... where are the other pilot whales? Residents, police, firefighters and the Kaka Point Surf Life Saving Club spent more than two hours trying to help the injured whale back out to sea, but in the end the whale's desire to beach itsel

Is there a connection? On 16 February 2014,  two sperm whales beach on the Danish West Coast of the North Sea. Six days after the Danish beachings, a dead sperm whale was found on the beach in Kent, UK, 400 miles downstream from the Danish Coast stranding. Sperm whales often strand in this fashion. It is reasonable to assume that these 3 stranded sperm whales are all from the same pod.  In keeping with the earthquake theory, these whales were injured by a magnitude 5.3 earthquake (USGS) that occurred in the Greenland Sea on 16 January 2014 ( 08:14:46 UTC - 09:14:46 local time)  The epicenter was  located at 73.7856N --- 8.5432E; depth of focus shown as 10 km, a default depth for oceanic EGs. The European geosite list this event at Magnitude 4.9 with a focus at only 3.1 km below the ocean's surface . In my opinion, a mag 4.9 at 3.1 km is more whale-dangerous than a 5.3 at 10 km.  The 3.1 km depth at the European site is calculated by a geophysicists