ENE News Vancouver Sun, Nov. 6, 2013: An extraordinary string of recent whale encounters around Vancouver Island is likely due to luck, not one factor, experts say. “This has not been a typical year,” said John Ford, head of the cetacean research program at Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo. […] The “biggie” of the bunch is the endangered North Pacific right whale, spotted twice in B.C. waters for the first time in 60 years. […]
There have been other remarkable whale encounters: In May, a Campbell River man underwent facial surgery after his boat collided with a humpback whale in Kelsey Bay near the northern tip of Vancouver Island. This year humpbacks have been seen sporadically in unusual areas […] In August, a Galiano Island resident captured three minutes of close-up footage as a pod of playful killer whales travelled through Active Pass […] On Oct. 29, members of the endangered southern resident killer whales J-pod swam with a Washington state ferry as it carried tribal artifacts […] First Nations leaders said their feeding break to accompany the artifacts was an auspicious welcome. On Halloween, passengers aboard the B.C. ferry between Galiano Island and Tsawwassen were treated to the sight of a superpod of about 1,000 Pacific white-sided dolphins moving through Howe Sound […] [Lance Barrett-Lennard, project adviser for Wild Whales] said what’s stood out for him this year is theunseasonably quiet behaviour of resident whales […]
Nick Claxton, a member of the Tsawout First Nation and doctoral student and Indigenous academic adviser at the University of Victoria: Recent whale encounters could have a deeper meaning, according to an Indigenous worldview […] “We see them as our relatives, as ancestors. All of these occurrences remind us of our place here and our connection to the natural world. It’s for the better of all of us to listen.”
Yet another event hours after the above article was published: More than 1,000 Pacific white-sided dolphins have been filmed swimming in B.C.’s Haro Strait, less than a week after a similar sighting off the province’s Gulf Islands. CBC viewer Joshua Landry caught the incredible sight on video [he] said the pod stretched more than a kilometre across and the animals swarmed around the boat for about 20 minutes. “I’ve had a few people come up with theories that they [the dolphins] know more than we do, and they’re all getting out of here for some reason.”
Shouldn’t be to hard to figure out. Maybe they are running away from all the radiation from Japan. They do know something, It’s getting closer.
What the hell is gonna happen when that texas sized bunch of crap floating out there hits cali?
also the oceans are heating up.
maybe the babel fish will help them to escape. ‘So long and thanks for all the fish’ they will sing.
When the animals start moving or grouping in mass, doesn’t that mean a natural disaster of great proportions is likely to happen within days? Like the Sichuan earthquake for example.
In many studies in the past, the animals have been known to migrate in mass just before a major natural disaster hits as if they knew more than we did. Anyone think there might be one coming soon?
Species in the pacific are dying off at alarming rates. You can’t safely consume anything from the big pond off the west coast anyway. The radiation released already will make it impossible to die from “natural causes” if you live in the northern hemisphere. Even if, by some miracle, that they are successful in removing the spent fuel rods from #4 spent fuel pool, we still have 3-500 ton reactor cores MIA. These reactor cores aren’t going to just magically go away. On top of that, 3-4 hundred tons of radioactive water seeping into the ocean daily. My guess is the honest amount of radioactive water released into the Pacific is closer to 10 times that. Then, what are they going to do with all those storage tanks they constructed for the radioactive water to put on a show for everyone. These tanks were hastily constructed and will last, maybe, 5 years. Then what? We are at the beginning of a mass extinction event and this is not a conspiracy theory. This month they will begin to attempt to remove these damaged spent fuel rods. If something goes wrong and this fuel pool goes into an open air chain reaction, we all might as well bend over and kiss our asses goodbye.