200 to 300 dolphins beaching themselves on the shores of Manila Bay.

I believe this a direct repercussion from new forms of sonar developed for submarines and deep sea drilling a high pitched or low pitch sonar that we cant hear but is so disturbing to mammals such as dolphins and wales they are willing to beach them selves to get away from it. If it is in fact submarines they are not only hearting the ecosystem they are giving away there position to any government smart enough to watch for something like this.

i hope everyone knows that humans are only the second most intelligent animal. dolphins are first.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/feb/12/yehey/top_stories/20090212top8.h...

This links to an article written by a retired marine mammal researcher. His theory is sea quakes, sadly ends the article by saying:

"Forty years of experience tells me it is too late to save the dolphins that were stranded on Manila Bay. They had been at sea for over 30 days without fresh water and food. They were weak and likely had a large parasitic burden and were unable able to rid themselves of these worms unless given large doses of antibiotics, which could have damaged their sensitive ears, resulting in fatal hearing impairment. Bottom line is that at this point, the dolphins that beached themselves on the bay stand zero chance of recovery."

It is his opinion, I choose to believe we are missing something important that causes this behavior.
Again pollution has activated a dysfunctional chain reaction with unexpected, dramatic and mysterious results at the end of the line.
We only know a few of the links in between.

agreed. nothing on this earth has gone untouched or unaffected by humans' burning of fossil fuels.

we know now the power we yield. our hands are too heavy. we know what we have to do. why dont we do it?

Of course its climate chang you idiots. No the fucking dolphins just decided to go strand themselves on the beach cause they were bored. Pretty much everything bad that's happening to the earth is because of us.

"WHO LEFT THE DOLPHIN TREATS ON THE BEACH"?

Its cause we (HUMANS) are fucking this planet DOWN! I won't be surprised to see every animal attempting to off themselves in the next 10 years just trying to get away from us.

Blaming Man for any random natural phenomenon, with or without reason, seems to be the fad of the day. The story at the link poses two possible causes for this isolated incident, neither of which is caused by Man:

"A sea quake that damaged the dolphins' eardrums is one possibility, officials say. Or they could have followed a sick or injured leader into the bay."

That's from National Geographic. I don't know who "CL from planet doom" is, so I'll assume that information is largely speculative.

I don't like it already.

Submarines do not emit any sound. They are designed to be completely silent, under water they are as detectable as a large group of shrimp. If the subs had any sonar they wouldn't crash into each other. The advanced sonar systems are on shore on military bases along the coast to detect enemies' submarines.

We are a society that will constantly need things. We value our lives over theirs. You eat their fish.

We are at the point of no return, the environments screwed, so be it. Us resourceful humans will skip past this "green" revolution and finally realize that there is nothing to do but make it work; and we will.

The air will be good enough to breath
The trains will run on time
you will like it
don't worry

ever seen the simpsons episode where the dolphins rise up, maybe theyre sick of our shit literally and ready to set it off..... watch your ass they could be coming for you! seriously though we dump all our shit in the ocean causing algea blooms.our industrial waste is even worse, what does mankind think 100 years of this would lead to good things?

This is how third world dictators can tell where our "stealth" submarines are. They cause anomalies like this with their advanced sonar systems. Half a billion dollars to make subs invisible and everywhere they go they scare hundred of sea mammals out of the water. Irony

Thats quite the conundrum, too many people on the planet.

The solution would seem to be eradication.

anyone want to go first?

A backyard swimming pool is vastly different from the ecological wonder of the ocean. There is no doubt that humans have wreaked havoc on the ecosystem, but please think logically.

Here's Desmond Tutu for those with a large enough attention span.

http://tinyurl.com/dgvtjx

Have you ever seen someone's backyard swimming pool that hasn't been cleaned in months, and nobody in their right mind would dare get in it ?

Maybe this,....maybe that,.... Stop playing dumb.

Mankind has polluted the oceans.

Poison the oceans and this is what happens...
to many people on the planet!

Dolphins will often try to catch fish that swims just at the shoreline. They will catch a wave coming up on shore and do a flapping motion to sort of skim along the surface before the wave recedes. Its a dangerous maneuver thats hard to master for a lot of young dolphins. This could be a cause but there isn't much detail in this article.

This is so sad. I grew up about 20 minutes from the beach in South Florida, so I've heard stories about mammals beaching themselves, but I've never actually seen it. I know sometimes they beach themselves because they're sick and dying-- but is it our fault? Are people just saying it's natural? If humans are the cause, maybe people will start to take responsibility for how our pollution and neglectful actions are impacting the creatures we share the planet with.

The sonic wave blasting done by our Navy? It causes great harm to Whales also.
Mankind does not deserve the earth that the fundamentalists think they have "dominion" over. Dominion does not mean the right to destroy and that is what humans are doing.

I really hope that our oceans are not ruined beyond repair. This I'm sure has to have had some human influence, and it it our responsibility to fix what we destroyed. This is so sad!

I took a shot of 2 dolphins in the protected bay here is San Diego, was cruising my boat in Mission bay at the time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJ0fUM_Kwo

So long and thanks for all the fish...this is crazy.

anyone ever see the bullshit episode about dolphins? hilarious

So long, so long and thanks for all the fish!!

But seriously, I hope this problem gets solved soon. Dolphins are beautiful.

Yeah phytoplankton can be very harmful to sea life. When phytoplankton recieve to much sun light and the increase in ocean temperatures causes them to produce an over abundance of blooms. The blooms are then released and float to the surface of the water. When doing this, the blooms remove all the oxygen from the water. This then kills off all the sea life in that area. In Corpus Christi we call this red tide. When the sea life dies of and washes up on the beach, it creates a terrible smell. Sonar is another possiblility as well as an earthquake.

maby they were in a cult and the leader told them that if they beleived in scientology they could become human if they went on land....
. yea im sorry for not taking it seriously but its how i deal with realy sad news like this.... i wish we could help make sure they are protected. it probably polution or sonars pissing them off and they tried to get away from it but the only way to escape was out of the water. either way its our fault. the humans race's fault.

We I'm afraid are like these poor dolphins. We follow each other sheep like to our own demise. Maybe these see the future we are on course to and have decided not to participate.

Natgeo supplied a couple of possibilities.
The other scenarios are just as possible. The US Supreme Court gave the Navy the go ahead to use their sonar in simulations and exercises, even though it had been proved that whales and other sea creatures cold become disoriented and confused by the sounds.
Dolphins are near the top of the food chain. The higher up the food chain, the more poisons in the system, and mercury is just the beginning of the toxins.

BTW...this was posted under another link a couple of days ago.

where did you get that quote? and why did you not bother to quote the info that nat geo provided in the link?

"...A sea quake that damaged the dolphins' eardrums is one possibility, officials say. Or they could have followed a sick or injured leader into the bay."

I hope so too, they are precious...

I hope someday they could leave the human devastation singing “Good day, and thanks for all the fish” and be saved!

This is one of the most tragic, perplexing occurrences. I wish we could work it out. For these incredibly intelligent animals to do this, there must be something they are looking for?????????