Dear Alexandros:
I have for my reference the message below which I received at the andamanicobar yahoogroup from Kumaran. This finding is, I feel, part of the findings in all the areas of the globe being observed regarding whales(New Zealand area), fish(Philippines area), birds(Oklahoma,India) and so on. The most recent in India are the reports of dead crows-crows falling dead in large numbers(Jharkhand,India) and your report of whales beaching in the Ionian Sea area(West Corfu). The whistling may also be from submarines :"Cousteau concluded that the cetaceans had something like
sonar, which was a relatively new feature on
submarines."(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_echolocation).Sonar may also be used in air for robot navigation. But now to my main message:
Uniformly after such ocurrences have followed deadly earthquakes-major ones at that.
And hotspots have deterministically correlated with earthquakes. Now for the past week the hotspots have been significant in the areas bounded by the longitudes of the areas,Ionian Sea and Jharkhand:
See attached web fire mapper image for the period 28 November to December 5 2011 at 708 utc. Jharkhand's huge uranium mine's tailing pond is at 22.5074,86.3580 and the center of area of Jharkhand,India is at 23.6102,85.2799.
The hotspots here for the past 7 days:
Total number of fires detected :
74 [ONLY TOP 5 RESULTS ARE SHOWN.] Latitude | Longitude | Date | Time | Brightness | Confidence | Scan | Track | Satellite | Version | Bright.T31 | FRP |
23.766 | 86.398 | 2011-11-28 | 05:10 | 313.9 | 30 | 1.3 | 1.1 | T | 5.0 | 301.8 | 12.0 |
22.21 | 84.869 | 2011-11-28 | 05:10 | 312.1 | 49 | 1.1 | 1.1 | T | 5.0 | 300.3 | 8.3 |
20.492 | 84.896 | 2011-11-28 | 05:10 | 315.4 | 40 | 1.2 | 1.1 | T | 5.0 | 304.1 | 16.5 |
26.024 | 94.399 | 2011-11-28 | 06:40 | 310.6 | 40 | 1.4 | 1.2 | A | 5.0 | 293.3 | 20.4 |
26.785 | 90.828 | 2011-11-28 | 06:40 | 312.0 | 52
| 2.4 | 1.5 | A | 5.0 | 292.4 | 44.7 |
My theory is that radon and other radionuclides may have been ingested and inhaled by the crows and may have affected their breathing. Again this observation of crows falling dead is not an isolated instance, this is being observed regularly in the Jharkhand area.
The beaked whale position with its head above water is compatible with severe depletion of oxygen in the Ionian Sea with the whale wanting to breathe desperately? The severe depletion of oxygen is of course due to the heating up of the area as shown below from readings of the web fire mapper of the University of Maryland:
Total number of fires detected :
157
[ONLY TOP 5 RESULTS ARE SHOWN.]
Latitude | Longitude | Date | Time | Brightness | Confidence | Scan | Track | Satellite | Version | Bright.T31 | FRP |
41.652 | 21.394 | 2011-12-02 | 20:45 | 309.6 | 67 | 1.1 | 1.1 | T | 5.0
| 273.0 | 26.4 |
40.504 | 17.207 | 2011-12-02 | 20:45 | 310.1 | 69 | 1.1 | 1.0 | T | 5.0 | 283.9 | 20.9 |
41.424 | 21.942 | 2011-12-02 | 00:10 | 305.6 | 33 | 1.5 | 1.2 | A | 5.0 | 269.6 | 36.5 |
42.521 | 22.217 | 2011-12-02 | 00:10 | 308.3 | 60 | 1.5 | 1.2 | A | 5.0 | 272.5 | 37.3 |
38.035 | 22.481 | 2011-12-02 | 11:15 |
310.4 | 38 | 1.4 | 1.2 | A | 5.0 | 289.1 | 27. |
See also
We may expect a major quake in the Pacific Rim Region or in the 80-100 or in the -100 to -80 longitude band in the coming days.
Hope nuclear plants in the Pacific area or on the Indian east coast will be saved!
Thanks for the information and
With best regards:
R. Ashok Kumar, B.E.,M.E(Power),Negentropist, Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal, 299, Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk, Mumbai-400007.
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Subject: [MARMAM] New atypical mass stranding of Ziphius in the Ionian Sea,
Greece
Dear all,
Once more we have bad news regarding Cuvier's beaked whales in the
Ionian Sea. The local population unit, which has repeatedly been
affected by NATO naval activity (last time in
February 2011 east of
Sicily) may be steadily heading towards its extinction...
Today
30 November 2011 at least three Cuvier's beaked whales
stranded alive and atypically in west
Corfu, along 23 km of coast.
All whales were led offshore by people who tried to rescue them. One
whale died some 200 m offshore. Another whale, after having swam
some 600 m offshore, returned and stranded once more (if this wasn't
a different animal). It was led once more offshore after the sunset,
so no further information is available so far. The third animal was
not seen after it was "rescued".
I would like to draw your attention on two "peculiarities":
1) Independent rescuers in two different stranding areas, reported that
they were hearing "whistles" while approaching the single animals. The
"whistles" were heard even out of the water at a distance of 100 m from
the animal (!), and became much louder when the rescuers entered the
water to approach the animal. The rescuers kept hearing the "whistles"
until they left the place, two hours after the death of the unique whale
present! They thought that there might be other whales calling the
stranded animal from further offshore, although they could observe
nothing for hours.
Two independent rescuers (separated by 23 km) described these
"whistles" as "emission"-pause of 10-15 seconds-"emission"-pause and
so on. I wonder if what the rescuers were hearing was the probable
sonic cause of the stranding. If you have a similar experience or
knowledge, please share it with us.
The rescuers didn't see any military or seismic survey vessels from
the shore. A fisherman from the area said that today he saw an
"unusual" research vessel offshore that he believes (it is known in
the area that seismic surveys have started or are about to start)
was performing research for oil.
2) The whale that died 200 m offshore was found at about 3-4 m depth at
an unusual position (to me at least). Its flukes were on the sea bed
while the beak and part of the head of the animal was out of the water!
For some reason the head could float at surface and the animal never
sunk. Does anyone has an explanation?
Unfortunately no necropsy was performed to the animal that died.
The port-police authorities and local volunteers have been alerted
and we just hope that tomorrow we won't find more animals along the
coasts.
Repeated use of military sonar and now growing seismic survey
activity go on in an area that is critical for the two deep diving
Mediterranean species, the Cuvier's and the sperm whales. In 2007
ACCOBAMS officially proposed the creation of a MPA for deep diving
cetaceans in the eastern Ionian Sea (Hellenic Trench), but nothing
has happened so far.
Best wishes,
Alexandros
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___________________________________________ Dr. Alexandros Frantzis
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