MASS WHALE STRANDINGS CAUSED BY METEOROIDS AND METEOR SHOWERS. The completed paper can be found below in the 2024 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
2024, July 8. South Africa, Cape Town. Meteor. Time: 18:55.
2024, July 15. South Africa, Schoenmakerskop, Willows Gate 5. It is one of three humpback whale carcasses that stranded on Monday on Eastern Cape shores and one of six that have washed up this winter. Two other humpback carcasses washed ashore at Thyspunt near Oyster Bay and at Kasouga on the Sunshine Coast.
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2013, March 12. South Africa. South Atlantic Ocean. 70 km west of Paternoster South Africa. Coordinates: ( -32.7, 17.1). Time: 10:32. e = 2.9, -e = 0.1 or equivalent to 100,000 kg/TNT. Altitude was 26 km which was at the lower end of the scale. Velocity is unknown.
2013, March 13. South Africa, Cape Town, Noordhoek Beach. 20 False Killer whales were stranded on the beach with only three known to survive. Interesting note – Between 1880 and 1885 a mass stranding of killer whales took place in South Africa at Muizenberg Beach in False Bay (only 10km away over the headland). There were 7 specimens photographed but there could be more. It is the first known image of a whale stranding.
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