MASS WHALE STRANDINGS CAUSED BY METEOROIDS AND METEOR SHOWERS. The completed paper can be found below in the January 7th post titled Connection between Meteoroids and Mass Whale Strandings. “It is not known why they sometimes run aground on the seashore: for it is asserted that this happens rather frequently when the fancy takes them and without any apparent reason.” -Arisotle
2025, April 28. Southern Ocean/South Indian Ocean, 400 km NNW of French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Airburst. Coordinates: (45.1S, 67.3E). Altitude: 31km. E = 3.4. -e – 0.12kt or 120,000 kg/TNT. Airburst Ratio 2024-2025 4:17.
2025, April 17. USA, California, San Diego, Nahant Court in Mission Beach. A dead dolphin.
2025, April 17? UK, Anglesey, beach near Rhosneigr (Porth Tyn Tywyn). Dead bottlenose dolphin.
2025, April 18. USA, Massachusetts, Duxbury. A Atlantic White-Sided dolphin stranded and died.
2025, April 19. USA, Washington, near Cape Disappointment, Ilwaco, Long Beach, about four miles north of Seaview. A female dead gray whale. The whale was the fifth reported dead in Washington so far this year. Note: Two dead whales washed up along the Oregon coast last spring, and three others washed up in the span of a week in January 2023. Two of those five were also gray whales; the other three were a fin whale, a humpback whale and a sperm whale.
2025, April 17. Cambodia, Kampot province, Trery Koh commune. A pink dolphin ws found dead off shore. It weighed about 50kg and was 1.98 meters long.
2025, April 20. UK, Devon, Paignton beach then Torquay Harbour. Dead dolphin restranded after attempted refloat and died.
2025, April 21. Philippines, Lianga. Dead beaked whale.
2025, April 20. USA, California, San Francisco Bay off of Alameda. A dead whale found floating near shore.
2025, April 21. Iceland, north east, Njarðvík by Borgarfjörður eystri. Sowerbys Beaked Whale found washed ashore dead.
2025, April 21. USA, California, Torrey Pines State Beach, north of San Diego. A total of 12 dolphins in three weeks. The stranding team from NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center recovered 16 dead dolphins from San Diego beaches on Sunday, April 20. These deaths add to the likely toll of a domoic acid outbreak produced by a harmful algae bloom off Southern California. Note: As of 27th April deaths continue.
2025, April 21. Philippines, Lianga Bay, Surigao del Sur, coast of Brgy. A stranded cetacean was identified as a Longman’s beaked whale.
2025, April 21. Mexico, San Antonio del Mar. Dead beaked whale.
2025, April 21. UK, Wales, Traeth Crigyll, the main beach at Rhosneigr. A dead bottlenose dolphin.
2025, April 22. Belize. Location is between Stank Bank and Drowned Cayes Area, or to a greater extent between Belize City and Turneffe Atoll. A mass whale stranding of 30 false killer whales. They self escaped to deeper water.
2025, April 23. US, California, Ventura. Dead Humpback.
2025, April 23. USA, North Carolina, Emerald Isle. A pygmy sperm whale calf died after being stranded.
2025, April 25 (reported). Saudi Arabia, Red Sea coast. Two dolphins found dead this year so far.
2025, April 25. Bangladesh, Rajshahi at Talaimari Fultala Ghat on the banks of Padma River. A Irrawaddy dolphin washed ashore dead.
2025, April 26. Mexico, Gulf of California, Las Conchas, south of Puerto Peñasco. Dead whale in advanced state of decomposition. A dolphin and two turtles washed ashore two weeks ago in the same area.
2025, April 26. USA, Maryland, Ocean City’s back bay. A dead and decomposing whale has become stranded on a sandbar in. The cetacean became stuck in just a few inches of water in the area off Harbour Island and Purnell Island.
Note: there has been whale and dolphin deaths reported in Pacific coast Guatemala.
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2025, April 22. Belize. Location is between Stank Bank and Drowned Cayes Area, or to a greater extent between Belize City and Turneffe Atoll. A mass whale stranding of 30 false killer whales. This area has seen pilot whales mass strand before, and this is the third time FKW have stranded in these shallow seas. The Belize Fisheries Department coordinated with the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute.
Update: April 25. All individuals found deeper water and have ventured away from danger.
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2025, April 21. Mexico, San Antonio del Mar. Dead beaked whale.
Note: There have also been beaked whale strandings in Iceland, the Philippines (the largest known individual ever) and New Zealand. I can only suggest the wording as a global cluster. In all likelihood, I will find further cases or others that will never be recorded.
Small Airburst in Australia. It's incredible to think that it was only 82,000 kg/TNT. What if it had been in the millions, or even just in the hundreds of thousands? Then imagine this over water and above cetaceans. The one off the coast of Mexico on March 27 was 2.4 million kg/TNT.
2025, April 21. Australia, New South Wales, near Queensland border at the Gibraltar Nature Reserve. Airburst. Coordinates: (29.1 South, 151.6 East). Travelling NW or NNW was seen from Melbourne in Victoria to Bundaberg in Queensland, over 1600 km apart. Colour: Blue-Green. Energy: e = 2.3 × ^10j. -e = 0.082 or 82,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 41km. Velocity: NA. Time: 09:27 UT, 19:23 AEST. The sound had delayed and concurrent properties. The sonic boom was heard at Stanthorpe (NSW) 58km away and was described as “a massive boom”. At Sandy Flat, houses were shaken shortly after the meteor exploded. A witness stated they, “saw the flash from lounge room window and shortly after heard a big bang, shaking the house like bad thunder”.
The trajectory in the map below is preliminary.
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The atmosphere in Mexico is active at the moment. Two major meteor airbursts occurred in the Pacific Ocean in recent months. The first occurred in December and has corresponded with the increased whale strandings. This large fireball created a sonic boom that was heard as a low rumble.
A 'fireball' lights up Mexico skies sparking awe across the country | AP News
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This is what I have been saying for a long time. It's not just Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands, etc., hunting cetaceans. It's happening in remote locations out of the gaze of mainstream media. It happens all over the world in countries that would surprise you, and the tolls are mind-blowing. I'm pleased the ABC has covered this.
Dolphin hunt on the island of Sulufou, Solomon Islands - ABC News
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This list is incomplete due to information already covered and future data entry. There is also a continued stream of beaked whale deaths coming to shore in New Zealand.
2025, April 8. Philippines, Pangasinan. Dead Irrawaddy dolphin.
2025, April 9. USA, Cape Cod, Chapins Beach. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 10. USA, North Carolina, Outer Banks, near Shad Street in Corolla. A dead female juvenile humpback whale washed ashore. The carcass floating in the surf moderately decomposed.
2025, April 11. Malaysia, Penang, Teluk Bahang beach, Straits of Melacca. The carcass of an Irrawaddy dolphin, was found washed ashore.
2025, April 11. Greece, Roda beach in North Corfu. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 12. USA, California, Hunington Beach, Pasea Hotel. A Gray whale washed ashore dead.
2025, April 14. Philippines, Nanay. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 13. Cambodia, Kampot, Boeung Touk commune, Bokor town, Kampot province. 3 Melon headed whales were rescued after stranding.
2025, April 15. Ireland, Donegal, Mouncharles Pier. A porpoise washed ashore dead.
2025, April 15. Hong Kong, Cheung Chau. A Indo-Pacific finless porpoise washed shore in advanced state of decomposition.
2025, April 16. Pakistan, Sukkur. An endangered Indus River dolphin, commonly known as the blind dolphin, was found dead near Gate No. 5 of the Sukkur Barrage.
2025, April 16. USA, Massachusetts, Plum Cove Beach in Gloucester. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 17. USA, New York, Queens, Rockaway Park. Dead dolphin.
North Atlantic Right Whales appear, and North Pacific Right Whales appear to be mirroring each other's movements. Just because whales are close to shore doesn't necessarily mean a manmade problem lurks behind the scenes. In Japan, it's natural, and on the east coast of the USA it is also natural.
Watch North Pacific Right Whales, 北太平洋セミクジラ, off the coast of Japan, 日本 (Nihon).
迷い込んだ？高知市の海に体長１５メートルほどの“ザトウクジラ” 専門家「弱っている個体ではないので自然に任せて」
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2025, April 13. Cambodia, Kampot, Boeung Touk commune, Bokor town, Kampot province. 3 Melon headed whales were rescued after stranding. The cetacean is also known as electra dolphin, little killer whale, or many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed whale of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae), not normally seen in Cambodia.
Image: Khmer Times
These incidents are not isolated. According to NOAA, the U.S. has seen a troubling rise in whale strandings and deaths in early 2025:
Over 81 gray whales have been found dead along the Pacific Coast since January.
13 deaths have occurred in San Francisco Bay alone.
At least 70 gray whales died earlier this year in the lagoons of Baja California, Mexico—their traditional wintering ground.
Two Large Meteor Airbursts.
2024, December 20. Pacific Ocean. Airburst. 204 km S.W off the coast of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Energy: 3,400,000 kg.TNT. Altitude: 32.6 km. Velocity: 21.1 km/sec.
2025, March 27. Pacific Ocean, 920km WSW of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. Large Airburst. Energy: 2,400,000 kg/TNT.
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2025, April 10. New Zealand, east in North Island, Opoutere Beach. Two more rare Grays Beaked whales, about 4.5 to 5 metres long, were found deceased.
Note: They are beaked whales; however, I'm not sure they are Gray's beaked whales as reported.
Image: Helen Bucksey Facebook.
2025, April 5. Mexico, Costa Baja, La Paz Bay. A dead Gray whale in an advanced state of decomposition has washed ashore.
This is a crucial issue in Mexico, hence the post. I will place a weekly update on further cetacean strandings later.
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2025, April 9. Scotland, Ettrick Bay, on the Isle of Bute, Firth of Clyde. A 14 meter long cachalot (sperm whale) that was seen in shallow water on April 8 has stranded and died.
(Image: SDPhotographyBute)
2025, April 8. South Atlantic, 700km WNW of South Africa. Airburst. Coordinates: (32.2S, 10.4E). Altitude: 44.9 km. Velocity: 22.6 km/sec. Energy: e = 2.1, 0.076 or 76,000 kg/TNT. 2024-25 Ratio: 4:15. A marine animal disturbance is expected to be noted in southern Africa in the upcoming months.
This comes after the March 29 airburst in the Southern Ocean. Coordinates: (49.3S, 14.3E). Altitude: 21.6km. Velocity: 12.3 km/s. E = 5.9. -e = 0.19, 190,000 kg/TNT. 2,200 km north of Antarctica and 1,700 km SSW of Cape Town, South Africa. See Monday, 31 March post.
2025, March 27. New Zealand, Dunedin. A Grays beaked whale washed ashore dead.
2025, April 2. USA, Washington State, north end of the Long Beach Peninsula. Dead Gray whale.
2025, April 3. New Zealand, Whanganui. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 4. USA, California, San Francisco Bay, Angel Island. A second dead Gray whale, an adult male, was reported floating east of Angel Island. The whale was towed to Angel Island State Park. Necropsy done. The carcass of the whale was in an advanced state of decomposition, which officials said indicated it had been dead for some time.
2025, April 4. USA, California, San Francisco, Fort Point Rock Beach. A third dead Gray whale that the remains were in an inaccessible location and caught in rocks offshore. The age and sex of the whale is unknown. There continues to be a significant number of gray whale sightings in San Francisco Bay as this species continues its northern migration to its Arctic feeding grounds.
2025, April 5. New South Wales, Sydney, near Ultimo. Fireball. Trime: (2.46am). A loud sonic boom and a brilliant flash of light.
2025, April 6. USA, Massachusetts, Yarmouth. Two dolphins were stranded and refloated.
2025, April 6. UK, Kent, Sheerness Beach, near Marine Parade. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 6. USA, Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor Golden Shore Drive and Shoreline Village, across from the Queen Mary. A minke whale that had been circling within Long Beach Harbor for much of the week unfortunately died.
2025, April 7. New Zealand, Tahanui Mahia in the northern South Island. A rare adult male Gray's beaked whale.
There was a meteor on 2025, April 5. Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, near Ultimo. Fireball. Time: (2.46am). A loud sonic boom and a brilliant flash of light.
One large fireball in New Zealand.
There were two meteor airbursts, one in inland Australia and the other in Antarctica.
I will add other Asian, Indian and worldwide strandings and meteor events as they come in.
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2013, February 20. South Atlantic. Airburst. Coordinates: (23S, 38.8W). Energy: 100,000 kg/TNT. This was 450km east of the stranding in Brazil.
2013, September 22. Brazil, Upanema beach, Areia Branca, Rio Grande do Norte State (RN; 04°55'34,1"; 37°06'50.1"). A mass stranding of 30 False killer whales. 24 were alive when located and refloated, but later another two died, bringing the total to 8 dead. One of these was debated as being related to the pod.
2013, October 12. South Atlantic. Major Airburst. Coordinates: (19.1S, 25W). Energy: 3,500,000 kg/TNT. This airburst was 20 days after Brazil whale stranding.
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Added whale strandings, with others catalogued at a later date.
2025, March 22. Philippines, Babuyan Islands, Calayan, Sitio Katanapan, Barangay Dibay. A Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) was found stranded. The whale, a male measuring 5.18 meters, was already in a decomposed state when reported by local residents.
2025, April 2 (Date sometime in last week). Norway, Dverberg on the island of Andoya. Cachalot (sperm whale). The sperm whale washed ashore in the town in a moderate state of decomposition. It was a male animal about 15.7 meters long.
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2025, March 3. Taiwan, Guishan Island's northern coast. A Fin whale calf was found dead on a rocky shoreline. The 10.5-meter-long whale is the first recorded case of a complete fin whale beaching in the country. The stranding site was not accessed by authorities until March 27.
Photo courtesy of Chang Hong-jie
2025, April 1. Vietnam, East Vietnam Sea, Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Province, Hai Thanh Ward, along Nhat Le Beach. Pygmy sperm whale. The whale measured approximately 1.1 meters in length and weighed about 15 kilograms.
2025, April 2. Vietnam, East Vietnam Sea, Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Provincee, Bao Ninh Commun. stranding within two days. Pygmy sperm whale.
The whales were both given traditional burial rites. Officials stated that the strandings were highly unusual and may have come from the same pod, and some disturbance at sea had occurred.
Photo: Quoc Nam
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There are many others worldwide that will be catalogued at a future date. The events in the USA, Scotland, Ireland and Denmark are all linked to meteor activity so far.
2025, March 30. USA, California, San Diego near La Jolla Shores. Dead 30ft long juvenile whale.
2025, March 30. Scotland, Argyll. Dead humpback washed ashore in a moderate state of decomposition.
2025, March 30. Scotland, Fife. The stranded dolphin was refloated.
2025, March 30. Ireland, Carn, Belmullet on the Mullet Peninsula, Co. Mayo. Live stranding of two pelagic common dolphins. Both the adult and juvenile were refloated in an alternate location.
2025, March 31. USA, Delaware, Indian River Bay, on the north side of the Indian River Inlet Bridge. A 35-feet long humpback that was moderately decomposed.
2025, April 1. USA, Brigantine, New Jersey. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 2. Philippines, San Miguel Bay, Ponong, Magarao. A dead whale shark (male, approx. 5 meters in length) washed ashore in Brgy.
2025, April 2. Denmark, Jutland region of Djursland, Løgten Bugt. A seven meter long juvenile dead humpback 25 kilometers from Denmark’s second-largest city. Fireballs occurred on March 8, 18 and 20.
2025, April 2. USA, California, Santa Barbara. Dead dolphin.
2025, April 2. Thailand, Phuket, Koh Siray, east of Phuket Town. Death of a small dolphin found floating.
2025 April 2. Denmark, Jutland region of Djursland, Løgten Bugt. A seven-meter-long juvenile dead humpback was found 25 kilometers from Denmark’s second-largest city.
Fireballs occurred on March 8, 18 and 20.
Image: Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Ritzau Scanpix
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2025, June 4. Yemen, Gulf of Aden, Socotra Island, Shu’ab area. A mass stranding of 80 dolphins. It is the second such incident in a short ...
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