Mass stranding at Cape Cod - Is a fireball or pushed stranding to blame. Update 20240701

2024, June 8. USA, Rhode Island, North Atlantic. Fireball. Time: 07:17UT.

2024, June 28. USA, Massachusetts, Cape Cod Bay, “The Gut,” an area near Great Island and Herring River in Wellfleet. 125 Atlantic white-sided dolphins stuck, 10 dead in record-breaking stranding off Cape Cod. International Fund for Animal Welfare is calling the biggest “single mass stranding event” in its response history in the past 25 years.

Update 20240701: Another 4 individuals are now dead.

Update: 20240714: 146 individuals stranded making it the largest mass stranding of mammals in US history. 

See post: Fireball off Rhode Island in North Atlantic June 9. The trajectory was updated a few days after event.

American Meteor Society (amsmeteors.org)

125 dolphins stuck, 10 dead in record-breaking stranding off Cape Cod - masslive.com

The above fireball appears perfect or too perfect. This is the same scenario that gets Sonic Systems into trouble. The airburst does %99.99 of the damage and the secondary scare lands the animals on the beach. It's like someone cracking their head at home and two hours later getting run over. The car gets the blame. 

In all likelihood, the dolphin stranding started weeks ago to the north, off Newfoundland, with the May 15th airburst below. It wasn't powerful; however, injury is injury and once the dolphins were on the run they headed south. Then they get freaked out by the electrophonic meteor on June 8. Cape Code resembles many parts of the world that look like whale traps, but they are not whale traps, they are sanctuaries. This is why South Africa receives fewer strandings because the continent is narrow. The whales can pick up on any meteor activity, choose where to go, east or west, and see safety gained quickly. This safety is hard to come by in other parts of the world when topography doesn't allow it, so grabbing any small inlet or harbour is received well.

2024, May 15. Canada, Newfoundland. North of Fogo Island. North Atlantic. Airburst. Time: 12:48. (Latitude: 49.8, Longitude: -54.1). e= 2.8. -e+ 0.098 or equivalent energy of 98,000 kg/TNT. Altitude 64.2 km.  

Bolide visualizer (seti.org)