Whales' Plight Revives Sonar Theory

[dArKeR]

Residents of Hanalei Bay on the Hawaiian island of Kauai woke up last weekend to a distressing sight: As many as 200 melon-headed whales, a small and sociable species that usually stays in deep waters, were swimming in a tight circle as close as 100 feet from the beach, showing clear signs of stress.

To keep the animals from beaching, the locals kept a vigil all day and through the night, until a flotilla of kayaks and outrigger canoes could be assembled to herd the animals back out to sea. So far, only one young whale has been found dead.

But among increasingly worried whale advocates and researchers, the event set off immediate alarm bells: Melon-headed whales are not known to beach themselves, and nothing like this mass stranding close call has occurred in Hawaii for 150 years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41385-2004Jul10.html

Just tell me why Repukelicans have to kill everything on Earth; animal; plant; non-Christian.

Just the most distgusting feces to ever live on Earth!

[tinanator]

1. ELF is not a recent development

can you tell me who has been outspoken and opposed to this nightmarish technology?

[Ediacara]

2. but but but

there's no proof that blasting super loud noises all over the pacific has anything to do with sudden massive whale strandings!

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:eyes:

[pinniped]

3. But we have to be on the lookout for Al Qaeda submarines.

:eyes:



Maybe the Japanese can pick up the beached whale carcasses for 1/2 price. Purely for scientific purposes I'm sure.

[Ediacara]

4. ya....

The science of Iron Chef.... :eyes:

[theivoryqueen]

5. finally. It has taken too long to get attention

maybe someone will pull the plug on this harrassment of marine creatures.