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Dead Dolphins on Tourist Beach in Zanzibar
Here's a bit of disturbing
news: From Yahoo!News,
scientists have been trying to determine why hundreds of dead dolphins have washed ashore a tourist beach in
Zanzibar. According to the report, fishermen and villages found themselves burying the bodies of about 400
dead dolphins that washed up on a 2-1/2 mile stretch of beach in Tanzania.Scientists are stumped as to the reason the mammals washed ashore. Among possible causes: poisoning, as well as U.S. Navy sonar disorienting the dolphins, causing them to rise too quickly, and, effectively, get what all scuba divers know as "the bends" -- sudden decompression forms nitrogen bubbles in the tissue.
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Willy May 2nd 2006 12:50PM
The Navy has taken a lot of hits recently over the use of sonar -- including being sued by environmental groups -- and many people have blamed the 13 recent cases of strandings by whales and dolphins around the world on naval vessels.
http://www.divester.com/2006/05/01/400-dead-dolphins-wash-up-on-zanzibars-beaches-update/