Update of the 2008 Madagascar dolphin stranding

Updated Information.

2008, May and June. Loza Lagoon system of Northwest Madagascar. A mass stranding of around 100 Melon-Headed whales. Of the original whales that entered the lagoon system, seventy-five died from causes related to being out of their normal deep-sea habitat. The International Whaling Agency (IWC) and other federal agencies with the permission of the Madagascar Government launched an investigation into the cause of this mass stranding. The IWC concluded that the most plausible trigger for the event was a high power 12 kHz multi-beam echosounder system (MBES) that has been firing along a shelf break a day before the event.

My findings found that the cause of these whales stranding was the result of a large meteor airburst on 2007, January 17. Indian Ocean, North of Madagascar. With the equivalent blast of 1,400,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 33.3 km. These whales were skin on bone without blubber which takes a long time to manifest itself, not 24 hours. Recently, I have found additional information not shown to the committee investigating this incident. In Iran. On 20 September and 24 October 2007 two mass strandings occurred causing the deaths of 152 stripped dolphins. It was the first and last time this type of incident was documented in Iran, apart from a smaller group of 11 still under investigation in 2011.

The same sequence of events happened in the Atlantic during this period at Cape Verde Islands where sonar was blamed for two mass strandings where an airburst was the more likely scenario.