FLA/more DEAD dolphons //Right whales sighted in gulf

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I hope they get out of there. Dolphins have been dying left and right. It is a huge embarrassment to the Florida government who says it has nothing to do with the dumping of the water into the gulf from the closed down phosphate mine just south of Tampa ...

 

Just a coincidence that 109 dolphins so far ARE DEAD and more critters washing up on the beaches also DEAD.

 

Florida gets millions of dollars from the tourists visiting the beaches, the tourists are not happy to see bodies floating to shore, particularly dolphins .....

 

So far, no comment, except that it is caused by "red tide" which does NOT happen this time of year .... and a follow up statement ..."it has nothing to do with dumping millions of contaminated water into the gulf .... yeah right .... NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Those whales better get out of there, they too will be washing ashore ....

 

As a native Floridian ----- I would NOT swim in the Gulf right now ... Particularly from Tampa on down passed Ft. Myers/Naples area .....

 

Right whales sighted in gulf Associated Press Last update: 16 April 2004 PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A rare sighting of right whales in the Gulf of Mexico has been confirmed for the first time in more than 20 years, scientists say. Right whales are among the world's most endangered species. A University of Florida student who was home for Easter weekend photographed two whales about a mile and a half off this Florida Panhandle resort city while fishing Friday. "One was about twice as big as the other," Chris Cramer said Wednesday. "They were moving at a good clip, too." Cramer provided the photographs to The News Herald of Panama City, which forwarded them to Pete Sheridan, director of the National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory here. They then were sent to whale experts inside and outside the agency, who recognized the animals as right whales, probably a female and her calf. With only 300 or so animals remaining, right whales are considered the world's most endangered whales. The sighting prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday to issue a notice to the boating public to be on the lookout for the whales and to report any sightings. "We do have some concern for the animals," said Blair Mase, a National Marine Fisheries Service biologist. "We would like to monitor them. We are interested in possibly tagging them. That will allow us to keep a close eye on them." The whales did not appear to be in distress and seemed to be heading southeast, Cramer said. A day after his encounter, a friend spotted a pair of whales 35 miles offshore but did not have camera, so it was unclear they were the same two, he said. Mase said a whale sighting also has been reported in Pensacola Bay, about 100 miles west of here, in recent days. The last right whale sighting in the gulf was during the 1970s, and there have been only a half-dozen since the 1950s, said Amy Knowlton, a research scientist in Boston with the New England Aquarium's North Atlantic Right Whale Research Project. "It's very rare," she said. "They don't really like real warm water , but they can handle it." Female right whales travel to southern waters in winter and deliver calves there, but they typically remain in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida and Georgia coasts. They generally start to head back north in mid-to-late March. Knowlton said a team of observers monitoring right whales off Florida and Georgia wrapped up its work in late March, believing the last of the animals had started the return trip north. She was unsure what may have led the whales into the gulf because it is difficult to find the small crustaceans they feed on there. It might be a sign of trouble, she said. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Enviro/03AreaENV01041604.htm

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Sounds to me like the "boys" have been busy again---dead whales and porpoises are the trademark of Navy Sonar. (not that the poison isn't bad enough on its own) Could you please send me the url for the article or articles---I would appreciate.

Thanks

Bea

PS I don't think I would want to do too much swimming around there anyway--check this out:

 

http://www.ems.org/whales/sonar.html

 

Active sonar had been suspected in previous whale beachings, but prompt analysis in this case of the dead whales enabled scientists to confirm, for the first time, the lethal role of the sonar system. All but one of the whales suffered hemorrhages in the inner ear, the likely result of a sonic blast.

According to the Navy's own study, scientists briefly exposed a 32-year-old Navy diver to LFA sonar at a level of 160 decibels -- a fraction of the intensity at which the LFA system is designed to operate. After 12 minutes, the diver experienced severe symptoms, including dizziness and drowsiness. After being hospitalized, he relapsed, suffering memory dysfunction and seizure. Two years later, he was being treated with anti-depressant and anti-seizure medications.

 

http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/nlfa.asp

 

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/6964825.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

 

http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/12/12242001/ap_whales_45958.asp

 

etc... etc...lots more in googleluckypig <luckypig wrote:

 

I hope they get out of there. Dolphins have been dying left and right. It is a huge embarrassment to the Florida government who says it has nothing to do with the dumping of the water into the gulf from the closed down phosphate mine just south of Tampa ...

 

Just a coincidence that 109 dolphins so far ARE DEAD and more critters washing up on the beaches also DEAD.

 

Florida gets millions of dollars from the tourists visiting the beaches, the tourists are not happy to see bodies floating to shore, particularly dolphins .....

 

So far, no comment, except that it is caused by "red tide" which does NOT happen this time of year .... and a follow up statement ..."it has nothing to do with dumping millions of contaminated water into the gulf .... yeah right .... NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Those whales better get out of there, they too will be washing ashore ....

 

As a native Floridian ----- I would NOT swim in the Gulf right now ... Particularly from Tampa on down passed Ft. Myers/Naples area .....

 

Right whales sighted in gulf Associated Press Last update: 16 April 2004 PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A rare sighting of right whales in the Gulf of Mexico has been confirmed for the first time in more than 20 years, scientists say. Right whales are among the world's most endangered species. A University of Florida student who was home for Easter weekend photographed two whales about a mile and a half off this Florida Panhandle resort city while fishing Friday. "One was about twice as big as the other," Chris Cramer said Wednesday. "They were moving at a good clip, too." Cramer provided the photographs to The News

Herald of Panama City, which forwarded them to Pete Sheridan, director of the National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory here. They then were sent to whale experts inside and outside the agency, who recognized the animals as right whales, probably a female and her calf. With only 300 or so animals remaining, right whales are considered the world's most endangered whales. The sighting prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday to issue a notice to the boating public to be on the lookout for the whales and to report any sightings. "We do have some concern for the animals," said Blair Mase, a National Marine Fisheries Service biologist. "We would like to monitor them. We are interested in possibly tagging them. That will allow us to keep a close eye on them." The whales did not appear to be in distress and seemed

to be heading southeast, Cramer said. A day after his encounter, a friend spotted a pair of whales 35 miles offshore but did not have camera, so it was unclear they were the same two, he said. Mase said a whale sighting also has been reported in Pensacola Bay, about 100 miles west of here, in recent days. The last right whale sighting in the gulf was during the 1970s, and there have been only a half-dozen since the 1950s, said Amy Knowlton, a research scientist in Boston with the New England Aquarium's North Atlantic Right Whale Research Project. "It's very rare," she said. "They don't really like real warm water , but they can handle it." Female right whales travel to southern waters in winter and deliver calves there, but they typically remain in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida and Georgia coasts. They generally start to

head back north in mid-to-late March. Knowlton said a team of observers monitoring right whales off Florida and Georgia wrapped up its work in late March, believing the last of the animals had started the return trip north. She was unsure what may have led the whales into the gulf because it is difficult to find the small crustaceans they feed on there. It might be a sign of trouble, she said. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Enviro/03AreaENV01041604.htm

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Oops sorry--I see the url is included on the bottom---however if you have anymore it would be great.

Thanks much

BeaBea Bernhausen <beabernhausen wrote:

 

Sounds to me like the "boys" have been busy again---dead whales and porpoises are the trademark of Navy Sonar. (not that the poison isn't bad enough on its own) Could you please send me the url for the article or articles---I would appreciate.

Thanks

Bea

PS I don't think I would want to do too much swimming around there anyway--check this out:

 

http://www.ems.org/whales/sonar.html

 

Active sonar had been suspected in previous whale beachings, but prompt analysis in this case of the dead whales enabled scientists to confirm, for the first time, the lethal role of the sonar system. All but one of the whales suffered hemorrhages in the inner ear, the likely result of a sonic blast.

According to the Navy's own study, scientists briefly exposed a 32-year-old Navy diver to LFA sonar at a level of 160 decibels -- a fraction of the intensity at which the LFA system is designed to operate. After 12 minutes, the diver experienced severe symptoms, including dizziness and drowsiness. After being hospitalized, he relapsed, suffering memory dysfunction and seizure. Two years later, he was being treated with anti-depressant and anti-seizure medications.

 

http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/nlfa.asp

 

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/6964825.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

 

http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/12/12242001/ap_whales_45958.asp

 

etc... etc...lots more in googleluckypig <luckypig wrote:

 

I hope they get out of there. Dolphins have been dying left and right. It is a huge embarrassment to the Florida government who says it has nothing to do with the dumping of the water into the gulf from the closed down phosphate mine just south of Tampa ...

 

Just a coincidence that 109 dolphins so far ARE DEAD and more critters washing up on the beaches also DEAD.

 

Florida gets millions of dollars from the tourists visiting the beaches, the tourists are not happy to see bodies floating to shore, particularly dolphins .....

 

So far, no comment, except that it is caused by "red tide" which does NOT happen this time of year .... and a follow up statement ..."it has nothing to do with dumping millions of contaminated water into the gulf .... yeah right .... NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Those whales better get out of there, they too will be washing ashore ....

 

As a native Floridian ----- I would NOT swim in the Gulf right now ... Particularly from Tampa on down passed Ft. Myers/Naples area .....

 

Right whales sighted in gulf Associated Press Last update: 16 April 2004 PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A rare sighting of right whales in the Gulf of Mexico has been confirmed for the first time in more than 20 years, scientists say. Right whales are among the world's most endangered species. A University of Florida student who was home for Easter weekend photographed two whales about a mile and a half off this Florida Panhandle resort city while fishing Friday. "One was about twice as big as the other," Chris Cramer said Wednesday. "They were moving at a good clip, too." Cramer provided the photographs to The News

Herald of Panama City, which forwarded them to Pete Sheridan, director of the National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory here. They then were sent to whale experts inside and outside the agency, who recognized the animals as right whales, probably a female and her calf. With only 300 or so animals remaining, right whales are considered the world's most endangered whales. The sighting prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service on Wednesday to issue a notice to the boating public to be on the lookout for the whales and to report any sightings. "We do have some concern for the animals," said Blair Mase, a National Marine Fisheries Service biologist. "We would like to monitor them. We are interested in possibly tagging them. That will allow us to keep a close eye on them." The whales did not appear to be in distress and seemed

to be heading southeast, Cramer said. A day after his encounter, a friend spotted a pair of whales 35 miles offshore but did not have camera, so it was unclear they were the same two, he said. Mase said a whale sighting also has been reported in Pensacola Bay, about 100 miles west of here, in recent days. The last right whale sighting in the gulf was during the 1970s, and there have been only a half-dozen since the 1950s, said Amy Knowlton, a research scientist in Boston with the New England Aquarium's North Atlantic Right Whale Research Project. "It's very rare," she said. "They don't really like real warm water , but they can handle it." Female right whales travel to southern waters in winter and deliver calves there, but they typically remain in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida and Georgia coasts. They generally start to

head back north in mid-to-late March. Knowlton said a team of observers monitoring right whales off Florida and Georgia wrapped up its work in late March, believing the last of the animals had started the return trip north. She was unsure what may have led the whales into the gulf because it is difficult to find the small crustaceans they feed on there. It might be a sign of trouble, she said. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Enviro/03AreaENV01041604.htm