| 1997 |
California Coast |
Gray Whales |
|
See comments in StopLFAS Msg#2832
by Bobbie Sandoz regarding Gray Whale Testing and escalating deaths along
mirgration route in years successive to LFA sonar research. |
| 1998 |
Hawai'i |
whale/dolphin |
3/1 |
Found abandonned or dead after
tests immediately after US Navy's Phase III SRP for SURTASS LFA - See StopLFAS
Msg #2832 |
| 2000 |
Madeira |
Beaked Whales |
several |
NATO military maneuvers - stoplfas/message/5082
|
| 2000 |
Galapagos |
Beaked Whales (Ziphius)
|
3 or 4 |
Airgun Testing - Same seizmic
ship |
| 2000 Summer |
Caspian Sea |
Caspian Sea Seals
|
10,000 |
Coincidental to seizmic testing
and oil drilling, disease hits the population devasting it with canine distemper
virus which is not species specific |
| 2001 Summer |
Puget Sound |
Whales |
|
Beachings related whales stranding
with blood in their ears see StopLFAS Msg#2832 - A Discovery Channel documentary
|
| 1985, 1988, and 1991
|
Canary Islands |
Whales |
24 |
3 occasions - See StopLFAS msg#2832
- linked to visible US Navy maneuvers. Simmonds, M.P. and L.F. Lopez-Jurado,
1991. Whales and the military. Nature, 351: pg 448. |
| 2001 Summer / April 20, 2002
|
Florida Coast |
Various |
|
Between 20 percent and 35 percent
of whales found dead show signs of having been struck by ships - stoplfas/message/3837
- See comments "apparently deaf whales collided with ships" related to sonar
activities/shock trials off Florida Coast - StopLFAS Msg#2832 - Also see
LA Times article re: same at stoplfas/message/3062 |
| Apr 6, 2002 |
Ragusa, Sicily south of Italy
|
rougth-toothed dolphins (Steno
bredanensis) |
6 |
stoplfas/message/3754
|
| April 17, 2002 |
Long Beach |
1 Orca & 1harbor porpoise
|
2 |
Orca was Lactating female - signs
of tauma and harbor porpoise was found the next day per Ken Balcomb see stoplfas/message/3838
|
| August 01, 2002 |
Eastern Shore of Virginia
|
rough-toothed dolphins
|
14 |
Incident coincided with several
global stranding incidents http://www.fishattorney.com
|
| August 01, 2002 |
Fire Island |
humpback whale |
1 |
internal hemorraghing of floating
whale http://www.fishattorney.com
|
| August 04, 2002 |
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
|
Longman's beaked whale
|
1 |
This is the rarest of possible
strandings. http://www.fishattorney.com
|
| Dec 2001 to April 27, 2002
|
Maui - Ma'alaea Bay
|
various |
4 incidents |
1 rough-toothed dolphin, 2 pygmy
sperm whales & 1 Blainsville beaked whale - stoplfas/message/3934
|
| Feb 3, 2002 |
Near Vero Beach, Florida on Coastal
Island |
pygmy sperm whales
|
3 |
stoplfas/message/3588 - see note
that 30 animals stranded in this area last year |
| February, 2000 |
European Shores |
Dolphins |
|
Hundreds of dolphins began washing
up on European Shores |
| Jan 31, 2002 |
Vero Beach, Florida
|
dolphins |
500 |
""Something's not right with the
Indian River Lagoon," - "These are raised lesions on the dolphins," - "cauliflower-like
growths" Hundreds of Dolphins Sick and Dying in Indian River/VERO BEACH AGAIN!
(location coincidental to Anthrax investigations) see stoplfas/message/3594
|
| January 18, 2000 |
Florida Keys |
Atlantic bottlenose dolphins
|
over 100 |
There were no obvious causes for
the stranding or the deaths - stoplfas/message/5091 |
| January 1998 |
Vieques, South Coast
|
Goosebeaked Whale
|
1 |
stoplfas/message/2839
|
| January 2001 |
Japan |
melon headed whales
|
50 |
stoplfas/message/3579
|
| January 21, 2000 |
Florida & Other Atlantic Coastline
locations |
Dophins |
|
Katie Couric asked on “The Today
Show" observed that hundreds of dolphins are stranding... no tests on ears
even though lesions discovered - See Bobbie Sandoz comments at StopLFAS Msg#2832
|
| January 23, 2002 |
Japan |
Sperm Whales |
14 |
stoplfas/message/3579
|
| Jul 29, 2002 |
Cape Cod |
Pilot Whales |
50 |
Series of strandings throughout
the week leading to all dying or being euthenized. Much publicized. stoplfas/message/4317
|
| July 1998 |
Aguadilla off Puerto Rico's northwest
coast |
Goosebeaked Whale
|
5 |
stoplfas/message/2839
|
| July 22, 2001 |
Vero Beach, Florida, USA
|
pygmy sperm whale
|
1 |
Beached near Indian River Shores
& site of 2 beaked whales stranding from (presumably) USS Winston S.
Churchill Shock Trial tests - See StopLFAS Msg#2723 |
| July 28, 2002 through Monday -
July 29, 2002 |
Pico Island, Azores
|
Beaked Whales, probably Sowerbys
|
4 |
Previously, three beaked whales
were reported as having stranded on on Pico Island, which is next to Faial.
A fourth whale was also discovered afloat and the body could not be recovered.
The remaining three stranded whales, we have now learned, had heads removed
and these samples were taken to the University of Azores in Horta for Necropsy.
http://www.fishattorney.com
|
| June 11, 2001 |
Vero Beach, Florida, USA
|
Beaked Whales |
2 |
Deaths successive to 3 Shock Trial
Tests of USS Winston Churchill involving underwater explosions. Info at Msg#2503
StopLFAS & Web location http://www.geocities.com/shootdaguy/shock/comments_on_shock_testing.html
|
| June 11, 2002 |
Nantucket |
Sperm Whale |
1 |
stoplfas/message/4039 - ear samples
taken |
| June 1996 |
Haro Strait, San Juan Islands
|
orcas, porpoises, seals and others
|
|
Sonar mapping & AUV testing
by MIT and Navy. Sharp decline in marine life population followed. See Message
#2832 |
| June 2002 |
Maine |
Northern Right Whale
|
1 |
Baby Right Whale severed in half
due to US Navy bombing exercise - stoplfas/message/4130 |
| March 15, 2000 |
Abaco, Grand Bahama and North
Eleuthera, Bahama Islands |
15 Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius
cavirostris) & 1 Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
|
16 |
Much publicized conclusions from
NMFS (Dec. 2001) that military sonar was to blame. See Ken Balcomb's comments
at StopLFAS message #2566 |
| March 2000 |
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa
|
Dolphin |
28 |
stoplfas/message/2843
|
| May 11, 2000 |
Vieques, Puerto Rico
|
Goosebeak whale |
1 |
As Navy returned to Vieques for
exercises - head removed and sent to Laboratory in Miami per NMFS. Dr. Darlene
Ketten to conduct test on head samples to assess if any damage is evident
in whales ear canals and tympanic bones. See StopLFAS msg #2839
|
| May 9, 2001 |
Calabria |
2 Sperm Whales & 1 Striped
Dolphin and several turtles |
3 |
Associated with possible "zone
experiments comprising drilling, sonar, "seismic flute" or cables, trawling.
Info at StopLFAS Msg # 2378 & within 2001 Annual Report of annual report
of the Centro Studi - Beaches: Gioia Tauro, Marina di Curinga (more than
100 km from Gioia Tauro) |
| Nov 11, 2002 |
Queensland, Australia
|
Cuvier's beaked whale
|
1 |
Healthy whale strands without
explanation /stoplfas/message/5132 |
| Nov 6, 2002 |
Melbourne, Australia & Florida
Panhandle |
various |
|
Commentary on global observation
of "cluster strandings" - stoplfas/message/5089 |
| Nov 7, 2002 |
East Coast USA |
Kemp's ridley sea turtles
|
Record Numbers |
stoplfas/message/5105
|
| Nov. 1, 2002 |
Long Island, the Bahamas
|
dolphins |
50 |
"Long Islanders await dead dolphins'
test results, burial" as dead dolphins rot on the shoreline. Original message
included 50 deaths. Cause unknown. |
| Oct 15, 2001 |
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Florida
|
Pilot Whales |
9 |
7 out of 9 which stranded died
in an 8-mile area on Santa Rosa Island, about 20 miles east of Pensacola.
stoplfas/message/3305 |
| Oct 3, 2001 |
Hamilton Island - southern tip
of the Great Barrier Reef on Australia's east coast. |
false killer whale
|
|
baby abandoned - stoplfas/message/3251
|
| October 3, 1999 |
U.S. Virgin Islands
|
3 Species |
4 |
1 Adult Cuvier's Beaked Whale
was noted among the three species reported in total. One on Salt Pond Beach
in St. John, One in St. Thomas, 1 Pilot whale at Christiansted Beach St.
Croix was pushed out to sea, now believed to be two. Sonar testing sent people
running out of the water. Samples rotted on the beaches. Findings inconclusive.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3371/martcampbell.html
and http://manyrooms.com/stcroixvi.html
and http://www.geocities.com/shootdaguy/avis1and
http://www.geocities.com/shootdaguy/avis2
|
| September 1999 |
British Virgin Islands of Anegada
Island |
Pilot Whales |
11 |
Little known about this incident
other than the fact that it coincided with a stranding known to be sonar
related in the US Virgin Islands in October '99. http://www.geocities.com/shootdaguy/avis2
|
| September 29, 2001
|
PANAMA CITY BEACH in Florida
|
Pygmy Whale |
1 |
stoplfas/message/3233 -
|
| Sun Sep 9, 2001 |
Athens, Greece |
Humans & Marine Life
|
|
stoplfas/message/3115 - Article
from Reuters - Columbia University's ``Maurice Ewing'' blasts away and rattles
both marine life and items of architectual significance - coincidental to
an earthquake of 5.7 - gee, how did that happen? "Oops!" |
| Sunday Jul 8, 2001
|
Cork Harbour, Ireland
|
Orca Whales |
1 |
Healthy whale suddenly died without
apparent cause StopLFAS Message #2635 |
| Tuesday - July 30, 2002
|
Tooregullup Beach near Perth,
Australia on the Indian Ocean |
False Killer Whales
|
54 |
Standing occurred on a remote
stretch of beach near the Great Australian Bight, & coincided with other
global incidents of stranding |
| Tuesday, July 31, 2001
|
Staten Island, New York USA
|
Humpback Whale |
1 |
StopLFAS Msg#2817 re: Ships Strike
- See also commentary on increasing #s of ship strikes by Bobbie Sandoz at
StopLFAS Msg#2825 |
