Tracking whales - Mysterious whale whale cropping event (Part I)

On an afternoon of September 25, 2002, a group of marine biologists were on holiday at Isla San José, Baja California Sur, and Mexico caught two whales stranded on the beach.

Conducting rapid analysis shows that they have only just died for a long time. Scientists informed the passing ship and sent a message to a partner at a nearby marine mammal laboratory. This person then went to the beach to investigate.

(Photo: Ivan Chermayeff)

They are all beak whales, with 20 known whales. As a relatively small member of the whale family, they look like oversized dolphins. Due to their deep diving preferences, they become the most mysterious, least known creatures.Strangely, the event that stranded whales in Isla San José occurred only one day after the stranding event of at least 14 other mined whales on Canary Island beaches in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura was 5,700 miles away. . Rescuers there frantically put whales into the water while keeping their bodies cool. But eventually they died. Several whale carcasses are immediately taken to the nearby city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for analysis.

It is almost impossible to point out the exact cause of stranded whales. Hypotheses always show factors such as the lost whale that loses a sickly head that is dying but loyally follows it, or the event that the water suddenly becomes shallower near the road. Whale residence. However, two whales stranded in September 2003 contained something that stimulated curiosity. Canary Island rescuers wrote that naval ships that conducted drills that day were not far off the coast. This is the context of the 4 other stranded whale events on Canary Island beach since 1985. While no military maneuvers were performed outside the Isla San José coast, the ship which scientists transmitted radio information turned out to be a research ship pulling a series of underwater air guns used in seismic experiments at the seabed of the region. These air guns were used the previous morning.

The suspicion of a causal link between stranded whale phenomenon and seismic tests or the use of high-tech tumultuous tracking devices in military training activities has increased. time. Several coincidences have also been recorded at the beaches of Brazil, the Bahamas, the Galápagos Islands, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Japan, as well as the waters off Italy and Greece. Examination of dead whale corpses revealed information about the whales and brain damage of whales. However, the investigation of whales in Canary Island brings other information - a darker dimension of the whale's secret strands. In addition to bleeding around the brain and ears, scientists detect lesions in the liver, lungs, and kidneys, and there are nitrous bubbles in the organs and tissues. These are classic symptoms of a disease that scientists still believe whales are immune to: pneumonia or diver's disease.

(Photo: Ivan Chermayeff)

It sounds like something from a bad fantasy movie: whales whizzing like a body to the ocean surface to evade the echo room that drove them crazy that humans created in the environment. live sensitive to their sounds. But since whales were stranded in Canary Island in 2002, whale carcassing had to be done more with a number of stranded whale whales. The impact of the xea or other sounds created by humans for the marine ecosystem has been clearly confirmed.

The question of the catastrophic impact of whales on whales eventually reached the Supreme Court last November, forcing the US Navy to face the Council of Natural Resources Protection. The Security Council, along with other environmental groups, has achieved two major successes in the district court and the California appeals court, bringing in regulations that severely restrict the use of Naval devices. in training rehearsals. However, the Supreme Court's ruling struck a cold water on the effort to protect the environment, reversing most of the lower court's regulations, blaming scientists for failing to report in time. reporting to naval officers on specific predictive assessments, resulting in a danger to the safety of the navy and at the same time losing public interest in military readiness by forcing The Navy must array with an anti-submarine force not fully trained. In the verdict, the judge minimized the problem of harm to marine life. He said: 'For those who sue, the potentially most serious injury could be harming a number that is not clear about the marine animals they observe and study.'

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