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Tasmania's Pilot Whales Injured by Undersea Earthquake

November 28, 2008

The pod of pilot whales stranded on Anthony's Beach near Stanley Tasmania were injured 25 days prior to beaching by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake in the seafloor below where the pod was feeding.

Barotrauma Induced by Undersea Earthquakes Explains Why Whales Mass Strand!

November 11, 2008

The DEAFWHALE SOCIETY solves the centuries-old mystery of why pods of whales and dolphins mass strand on beaches around the world! The answer turns out to be barotrauma in the head sinuses induced by seismic pressure waves above the epicenter of thrusting earthquakes in the seabed.



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