Capt. Williams predicted sperm whale mass beaching 4 weeks in advance

Capt. David Williams, founder of the Deafwhale Society, has pounded the table for almost 20 years trying to tell marine mammal scientists and the entire world that pods of whales strand -- 30 days after experiencing a diving-related injury caused by potent pressure changes induce into the water when the seafloor shifts vertically during an undersea earthquake.

But marine mammal scientists turned a deaf ear because they were jealous that a lowly sea captain could solve a mystery that stumped the best whale scientists. The professional jealousy is commonly called the "Not Invented Here Syndrome."

Finally, after years of trying to get the bloody scientists to support his work and help him prove the earthquake connection, Capt Williams hit upon the idea of how to prove his work without any help from anyone.

He now monitors underwater earthquake activity and when a suspicious event occurs, issues a stranding alert predicting ~30 days in advance of when and where a pod of whales might beach themselves. The idea is that if pod beaching can be predicted based on certain earthquakes, then earthquakes at sea must indeed explain strandings regardless that the bubble-headed scientists insist otherwise.

These scientists want the public to believe that they must continue to study stranded whales to sort out the mystery so that public money will be made available. They are fearful that if the public finds out that whales strand due to a natural cause, the public will see that the best thing is let nature takes its course.

Anyway, on 13 December 2008, the following earthquake occur in the seafloor south of Perth Australia:

MW 5.9 WESTERN INDIAN-ANTARCTIC RIDGE: 08/12/13 04:45:36 PM local time at epicenter --- Epicenter: -49.035S 123.409E

USGS CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR: 08/12/13 08:45:49.50 Centroid: -48.575 123.972 Depth 10 No. of sta:114 Moment Tensor; Scale 10**17 Nm Mrr=-8.92 Mtt= 9.69 Mpp=-0.76 Mrt= 4.76 Mrp= 0.46 Mtp=-0.97 Principal axes: T Val= 10.90 Plg=13 Azm= 4 N -0.78 4 273 P -10.12 75 163 Best Double Couple:Mo=1.0*10**18 NP1:Strike=101 Dip=32 Slip= -80 NP2: 270 59 -95

This quake caught the attention of Capt. Williams and on 17 December 2008 he posted a blog entry predicting a pod stranding in Tasmania in the middle of January 2009.

http://deafwhale.blogspot.com/2008/12/pod-of-whales-predicted-to-strand-...

THE PREDICTION WAS ON TARGET!

In the middle of January, 48 earthquake-injured sperm whales stranded on Perkins Island on the shore of northwest Tasmania.

Of course, the jealous pee-brained whale scientists will insist that this was just a lucky guess.

January 23, 2009