Dead whale located 4 days after airburst off New Zealand

2024, December 5. New Zealand, Tāwharanui Peninsula, Hauraki Gulf. Dead Humpback located floating in sea.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360512059/surprise-fishing-mates-dead-whale-pops-out-hauraki-gulf

Marine Animal Disturbance Alert

I'm placing a Marine Animal Disturbance alert out for the Chatham Islands and the east coast of the two islands of New Zealand after the meteor airburst. The event parameters: 2024, December 1. Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand. Airburst. Coordinates: (-42.7, -172.4). Time: 08:50. e = 13, -e = 0.38 or 380,000 kg/TNT. Pacific Ocean 334 km E.N.E of the Chatham Islands. A pilot whale can travel up to 160 km a day. This reduces to 40 to 60km when unsettled. The combination of the noise and VLF Radio waves injures toothed whales. This holds for Baleen whales also however it is just the noise that upsets them. This event is almost three times greater than the one in South Africa that created a large sonic boom and less in altitude and at greater velocity. This calculates that it was roughly between 5 to 10m in diameter if it was a stoney meteoroid.  

Pilot whale stranding in New Zealand

2014, December 2. New Zealand, Golden Bay, Cook Strait. There are 37 long-finned pilot whales stranded at one location. 13 whales have died and 24 remain alive as of 20241203 at 06:30.

It could be linked to a previous event: 2024, November 24. New Zealand, Ruakākā Beach in Northland. Approximately 40 Black Dolphins (Pilot whales) were stranded with the resulting deaths of 4 individuals, two adults, a sub-adult and a calf.

A whale stranding in Golden Bay. (Source: Project Jonah)