Mysterious whale deaths” in California under investigation

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Where are all the 'save the whale' activists crying out in the news?

CBS: “Mysterious whale deaths” in California under investigation — Scientists perplexed, this is “very concerning” — “Continues trend of whales washing ashore” — Animals sick, starving, emaciated, too weak to swim, hemorrhaging (VIDEO)

Published: April 29th, 2015 at 8:36 pm ET
By ENENews

CBS San Francisco, Apr 24, 2015 (emphasis added): Mysterious Whale Deaths: 4 Carcasses Wash Ashore NorCal Beaches This Month — Lab officials are investigating the deaths of two gray whale carcasses that washed up this week in Santa Cruz County… This latest instance continues the trend of whales washing ashore on Northern California’s beaches. Last week an emaciated 50-foot sperm whale washed up on Pacifica Beach… Just days ago, a killer whale beached itself north of Fort Bragg… According to the Marine Mammal Center, whale strandings are fairly rare.

San Jose Mercury News, Apr 21, 2015: Bay Area scientists remain perplexed as to what killed an adult sperm whale… “This is a very intriguing… they don’t naturally beach themselves,” said Dr. Caitlin Brown, a veterinarian with The Marine Mammal Center. “And the fact that he’s a top predator and so emaciated is very concerning.”… [It's] about 11 feet short of the average… and multiple tons short of the average 90,000 pounds… Lauren Rust, a research biologist at The Marine Mammal Center [said] “A sperm whale stranding is a rare event” … “It’s nothing that I’ve ever seen,” [a resident] said… “It’s just heartbreaking… It really makes you wonder.”

KPIX transcript, Apr 15, 2015: “A team of scientists [say] the whale was likely sick, possibly even starving… Lauren Rust, biologist: ‘He looks very thin, his bones are protruding. It appears that he hasn’t been eating, there’s not a lot of stomach content.’ The scientists say they wont know for a while exactly why the whale died, or if it’s related to the deaths of other marine mammals, like seals, which have been washing ashore in record numbers.”

San Francisco Chronicle, Apr 15, 2015: Sue Pemberton, a curatorial assistant from the [California Academy of Sciences], said the whale appeared to be underweight for its size, which could indicate a disease or other problem. “It should have a nice, sleek torpedo shape, but you can see the outline of his skull and shoulder,” she said.

Mirror, Apr 17, 2015: [The 50 ft. whale was] bleeding from its head… It is the seventeenth sperm whale to wash up on the North California coast in the last 40 years…

San Francisco Chronicle, Apr 19, 2015: Whale’s cause of death remains a mystery… “There were no broken bones, and while some hemorrhaging was visible in the muscles, it was not enough to indicate blunt-force trauma such as a ship strike,” the scientists said.

ABC 7, Apr 15, 2015: Pacifica resident D’Andrea Robinson [said] “I’ve never seen anything like it before“… Many Pacifica residents don’t remember the last time they saw a dead whale… They’ve seen other types of animals wash ashore in recent months. “Sea lions wash up… a lot of babies recently, but I’ve never seen a whale that size on the beach here,” said Greg Concepcion, a Pacifica resident. Residents now want to know what caused the whale to die.

Santa Cruz Sentinel, Apr 23, 2015: Two gray whale carcasses washed up in Santa Cruz County this week, prompting Long Marine Lab officials to investigate… A necropsy conducted Thursday on a 40-foot adult gray whale… couldn’t determine the cause of death… there was no evidence of… ship strike or entanglement… A second gray whale… had killer whale teeth marks…

AP, Apr 16, 2015: [A] rare pygmy sperm whale died after beaching itself in Point Reyes [30 miles from San Francisco]. Investigators said it had likely gotten sick and was too weak to swim.

KESQ, Apr 22, 2015: Killer whale dies… Cause of animal’s death may remain a mystery — Wildlife officials say a killer whale has beached itself and died north of Fort Bragg… north of San Francisco… the cause of the animal’s death may remain a mystery.
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[mick silver]

did something happen in japan , you never hear it on the news do you ......... a full blow meltdown and nothing

[EE_]

did something happen in japan , you never hear it on the news do you ......... a full blow meltdown and nothing

The silence is deafening. There must be a good reason this much death doesn't make the news...

TV: Billions of mysterious creatures dead along West Coast — “Literally covering all of Oregon coast” — Washing up from California to Alaska — Expert: Death totals are staggering, “it’s got to be billions” (VIDEO)
Published: May 3rd, 2015 at 9:04 am ET
By ENENews

National Geographic, Apr 20, 2015 (emphasis added): Billions of Blue Jellyfish Wash Up on American Beaches… In recent weeks, about a billion jellyfish-like “purple sailors” have washed up on West Coast beaches… The jellies started washing up on Oregon and Washington State beaches four to six weeks ago… Then they started showing up in California… Photo: Endless — Dead Velella stretch as far as the eye can see… perhaps as many as a billion, experts say

KOMO, Apr 17, 2015: There’s an unusual sea creature being pushed ashore from the Baja to the Bering Sea… beachcombers are finding something blue that’s out of ordinary. “This is something that doesn’t happen here very often.” For almost a month now a jellyfish like creature called the velella velella has been washing up by the millions… [Witnesses] have never seen anything like it.

KSBW, Apr 15, 2015: Billions of creatures wash ashore in California — Piles of sea animals have been washing ashore of late… These creatures are all over right now… changing the landscape of local beaches… says the death totals are staggering… “It’s got to be billions.” He says the animals are blowing ashore as far north as Washington and as far south as Pismo Beach [Calif.].

The Weather Channel, Apr 16, 2015: Billions of Mysterious Creatures on Beach — Billions of Velella Velella jellyfish are washing on shore along the West Coast… Strong winds and above average sea surface temperatures are killing off this unusual animal in large numbers.

Malibu Times, Apr 28, 2015: Blue Jellyfish Taking Over Malibu Beaches — An influx of visitors have taken over the shores of Malibu [and] have caused concern among residents.

Beach Connection, Apr 12, 2015: Last week, the bulk of the Oregon coast was hit by a large number of Purple Sails – a kind of small jellyfish… Now, however, the inundation has continued unabated and the little creatures are literally covering all of the Oregon coast. It is now hard to step on any part of a beach without stepping on them… “They haven’t really stopped coming in,” [Charlie Plybon, a Newport resident] said. “They’ve been coming in and coming in since I talked to you last.”… They seemed to disappear for several years between 2007 and 2014. This time, however, seems one of the larger inundations in more than a decade.

The Oregonian, Apr 19, 2015: What a weekend it’s been at the beaches in northern Oregon… [Velella velellas] washed up on Oregon beaches by the millions recently, capturing national attention… The buzz was a little mysterious to Keith Chandler, longtime manager of the aquarium, because the smallish marine life had been coming ashore for a month… Something similar happened last summer.
http://enenews.com/tv-billions-mysterious-creatures-washing-along-west-coast-piles-dead-sea-animals-california-alaska-literally-covering-all-oregon-coast-expert-death-totals-staggering-be-billions-video


[b]“Caldrons of hell” created at Fukushima, says energy company official; Disaster is recurring each day at plant — Japan Nuclear Expert: We have a crisis “of a severity that can’t be imagined anywhere else”; People have been abandoned and “thrown away” (VIDEO)
Published: May 4th, 2015 at 12:39 am ET
By ENENews

Asahi Shimbun, May 1, 2015 (emphasis added): Yauemon Sato, the ninth-generation chief of a sake brewery operating here since 1790 [and president of electric power company Aizu Denryoku] likens the crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to “caldrons of hell.” In a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Sato said the nuclear disaster “continues to recur every day”… Excerpts from the interview follow: Question: What drives you to be so active, including in the use of renewable energy? — Sato: You know the caldron of hell? You will be sent to hell and will be boiled in that caldron if you do evil. And there are four such caldrons in Fukushima… And the disaster has yet to end. It continues to recur every day. More than 300 tons of water, contaminated with intense levels of radioactive substances, are being generated every day…

Hiroaki Koide, professor at Kyoto Univ. Research Reactor Institute (retired), Apr 24, 2015:

11:30 – The Prime Minister [said Fukushima] had been brought to a close. My reaction on hearing his words was, ‘Stop kidding.’ Reality is, though 4 years have passed, the accident has not yet been brought to a close at all.
15:15 – What is the situation within the core? How much has melted? Where is the fuel exactly? We do not know… This is an accident of a severity that cannot be imagined anywhere else… As you can see, we are facing a very, very difficult situation. The only choice that we have open to us is to somehow keep the situation from getting worse.
30:30 – We are in a very terrible situation, I would even call it a crisis.
55:30 – The Japanese government has issued a declaration that this is an emergency situation. As a result, normal laws do not have to be followed. What they are saying is that, in these very high radiation exposure level areas, they have basically abandoned people to live there. They’ve actually thrown them away to live there… The Cs-137 that’s fallen onto Japanese land in the Tohoku and Kanto regions, so much so that this area should all be put under the radiation control area designation [the Kanto region includes Tokyo and is home to over 40 million people].
1:01:00 – I really do want to impress upon you that the accident effects are continuing.
1:02:00 – Bahrain’s Ambassador to Japan: If you were the Prime Minister of Japan, what are you going to do with this very complicated situation?… Koide: When you have an emergency legally declared, regular laws are put on hold. What that means is people can be thrown away into areas where normally people should not be… The first thing I would do as Prime Minister is evacuate all the children that are in the contaminated areas.
http://enenews.com/caldrons-hell-created-fukushima-energy-company-official-disaster-recurring-day-plant-japan-nuclear-expert-crisis-severity-be-imagined-anywhere-people-abandoned-thrown-away-video

[Hitch]

Another whale washed up on a local beach today. See article, and be sure to view the photos. No mention of fuku in either article, but they wouldn't mention it anyway, would they...

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Another-dead-whale-washes-up-in-Pacifica-6243319.php#photo-7929442

[Cebu_4_2]

And nobody ever mentions these:

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Military experiments involving underwater explosives could kill thousands of dolphins and whales

Navy training and testing could inadvertently kill and injure thousands of dolphins and whales over the next five years, mostly as a result of detonating explosives underwater, according to two environmental impact statements the military recently released.

The studies concluded that most of the deaths would come from explosives, while others may come from testing sonar or animals being hit by ships.

The Associated Press reported that the testing and training might cause marine mammals to change their behavior, such as swimming in a different direction, which has apparently already happened in millions of different circumstances .... http://intellihub.com (http://intellihub.com/2013/09/11/military-admits-training-kills-dolphins-whales/)