Cetacean strandings since March 9

2025, March 9. Hong Kong, The Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club. A male Finless porpoise. Length: 87 cm.

2025, March 9. Taiwan, Kaohsiung’s Keziliao Harbor. A three-meter cachalot (sperm whale) calf was stranded on the beach and later died.

2025, March 10. Egypt, Blumar Resort near Zaafarana in the Gulf of Suez. Dead female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), measuring 210 cm in length.

2025, March 11. Ireland, Bannow's coast. Dead dolphin.

2025, March 12. UK, River Forth, Torryburn Bay. Dead dolphin.

2025, March 12. USA, Delaware, Sussex County, Conquest Road at Delaware Seashore State Park. A 35-foot, 14-ton humpback whale washed ashore dead.

2025, March 12. Indonesia, Aceh, Pulau Island, Angkeo Beach. A large dead whale.

2025, March 13. Timor-Leste, Liquica. Large dead cachalot (sperm whale). Was seen in a distressed state before floating motionless.

2025, March 13. South Korea, Socheongdo Island in Ongjin-gun, Incheon. A large minke whale was found dead in a net in the northern sea of the West Sea. The cetacean was 7.5-meter-long 4.1 meters wide and weighed about 3 tons. The whale was located 13 kilometres south of the island where North Korea conducts illegal fishing including harpooning of cetaceans.

2025, March 14. Vietnam, Thach Hai commune, in the central city of Ha Tinh. A 100-kg, 1.5-meter-long, pygmy sperm whale was discovered a couple of hours ago. Whale worship is a long-standing tradition among Vietnamese fishermen, who believe the creatures' spirits offer protection at sea. It is customary for them to rescue stranded whales whenever possible and to hold burial and worship ceremonies for those that perish, often at whale temples.

2025, March 14. Mexico, Baja California Sur, Cerritos North Beach. Dead common dolphin.

Marine Animal Disturbance Alert after Large Airburst

2025, March 13. Mid-Indian Ocean. 384 km east of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. Large Airburst. Coordinates: (7.1S, 75.9E). e = 75, -e = 1.8 or 1,800,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 38km. Velocity: 28.1 km/s. Marine animal disturbance alert for the Chagos Archipelago. Watch for Maldives and Sri Lanka/India in the upcoming months.  

Airburst, daylight meteor and Strandings

2025, February 21. USA, Texas (location ?). Dead common dolphin.

2025, February 21. Indonesia, Bali, Badung. A dead humpback in an advanced state of decomposition washed ashore.

2025, February 22. UK, Cornwall, Par Beach. Dead common dolphin.

2025, February 22. Mexico, Baja California Sur, Bahia Almejas in the southern part of Bahia Magdalena in the Municipality of La Paz. Dead Gray whale.  

2025, February 22. Atlantic Ocean, 70 km west of Quinzau, Angola. Airburst. Coordintes: (6.9E, 12.1E). Energy: e = 3.5, -e = 0.12 or 120,000 kg/TNT.  

2025, February 22. Philippines, Davao City, Ana Wharf. Dead Cuvier’s beaked whale was found floating near Pier 1. Estimated to weigh around 700 kilograms, measuring 17.3 feet in length and 8.4 feet in width. Authorities are still determining the cause of death.

2025, February 22. China, Hac Sa Beach. A sub-adult male porpoise measuring 1.48 meters. The carcass was already decomposing.  

2025, February 22. China, Huangshan Mountain, 65 km west of coastal city of Wenzhou. Meteor Airburst. Coordinates: (28.1N, 120E). e = 5.5, -e = 0.18 or 180,000 km/TNT. Altitude: 56.7km. Velocity 15 km/sec. Important note: This is the 8th airburst this year compared to one this time last year. This is a major uptick in atmospheric activity, the most recorded in over 50 years. 

2025, February 23. USA, Texas, Aransas Pass. Dead dolphin.

2025, February 24. Malaysia, South China Sea, Pahang, Pantai Kampung Sungai Miang. A 10 meter long Bryde or fin whale in a state of advanced decomposition.   

2025, February 25. Mexico, Mazatlán. Dead whale shore. Species Humpback?

2025, February 25. Ireland, Ballydwan Beach. Dead dolphin.  

Mexico on 25th.

Sperm Whale strands in Indonesia

2025. January 30. Indonesia, Buol in the north mouth of Makassar Straits, the Central Sulawesi Province. A 9-meter-long cachalot (sperm whale) has stranded and died. The incident is along the country's cetacean stranding corridor.

Mass dolphin stranding in Somalia.

2025, January 23. Somalia, Puntland, between Bosaso and Mareero towns. A mass stranding of 140 dolphins, some of them dead, while others on the verge of dying. A rare case for the region. I've narrowed the investigation solely due to the airburst below. After this meteor airburst, a humpback was also stranded. They look like long-finned black dolphins or pilot whales; or homboboro in the local language.

Updated Post: Mass dolphin stranding in Kenya. 2025, January 3. Kenya, Shela Lamu, Shela region. A total of 6 dolphins stranded. One appeared to be injured with a wound on its peduncle (tail). The dolphins eventually swam off, with restranding later.

The cross to the north indicates Somalia stranding. The meteor airburst: 2024, July 12. Indian Ocean, off the coast of Africa, Somalia, 35km off the coast from the city of Adale which is 136 km north of Mogadishu. Time: 00:09. Coordinates: (2.6, 46.6). e = 8.5, -e = 0.26 or 260,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 41.5 km. Velocity: 22.4 km/s.

Indonesia Airburst and whale stranding Updated: 20240913

2024, September 6. Timor Sea/Indian Ocean. S.W of the Indonesian Island of Sumba. Airburst. Time: 12:36. Coordinates: (-12.9, 118). e = 2.1, -e = 0.076 or 76,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 27km. Velocity: 22.6 km/s.

2024, September 6. Indonesia, Liliweri, Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. A total of 17 pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) were found dead stranded on the coast.

The region is very active this year.

Rainfall during the dry season in Northern Australia and Typhoons in Central Asia is all related to increased meteor activity. Mass whale strandings in the Philippines, Thailand and dozens of other deaths including ones in Taiwan, China, Indonesia and other localities. On May 22. Passenger Flight SQ321 experienced what's been classed as "severe turbulence" while it was over southern Myanmar. One passenger died of a heart attack and 30 more were injured when the Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence.

2017, Three airbursts and three strandings

 Airbursts:

2017, February 2. Philippines, Pacific Ocean. Airburst. Coordinates: (10.4, 131.6). Time: 06:09. e= 6.6, -e = 0.21. Altitude: 33.5 km.

2017, February 18. Indian Ocean, midway between India and Africa. Airburst. Coordinates (6.2, 60.4). Time: 19:48. e = 29.5, -e = 0.79. Altitude: 38 km. Velocity: 24.2 km/s.

2017, May 24. South of Indonesia, Indian Ocean. Airburst. Coordinates: -9.1, 101.8). 430 km W.N.W. of Christmas Island south of Java and Sumatra. Time: 07:03. e = 9, -e = 0.28. Altitude: 46km. Velocity: 18.4.

Strandings:

2017, May 2. Philippines. Mass stranding of Pygmy Killer whales. The number unknown, All died.

2017, June. Sri Lanka. 20 pilot whales were stranded at a beach in the coastal town of Sampur near Trincomalee harbour in the country's northeast. All were saved.

2017, November 13. Indonesia, Aceh. 10 Cachalots were stranded. 4 died; 7 were refloated, one returned to shore and died and the remainder died on the beach. Volunteers from WWF Indonesia, the Indonesian government, and the Indonesian Navy collaborated to float the whales back to sea.  

Dead sperm whale in West Papua

2024, June 4. Indonesia, Southwest Papua, East Misool, Tomolol Village, Raja Ampat Regency, Ceram Sea. Cachalot (sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)) carcass in an advanced state of decomposition. The length of this marine mammal was 16 meters, diameter of around 6 meters and a tail 2.5 meters. Cachalot migration paths in this area are from Australian waters to East Nusa Tenggara and Papua.

This discovery was first published on the Facebook social media account of a resident named Hans Faam.

The 16 meter long whale carcass in Raja Ampat waters was not the result of hunting - Kompas.id

Airburst in the Timor Sea and migration routes of cachalots (sperm whales). This is more of a curious observation than fact-based science on my behalf. If I found further reports of whales along these routes after the airburst, I would be happier to call this connected. This was a low atmospheric airburst having mid-range energy with a detonation yield of 150,000 kg/TNT.

2024, February 5. Timor Sea. Airburst. Coordinates: (-13.8, 123.7). Time: 00:32. e = 4.6, -e = 0.15. Altitude: 23 km. Velocity: 14.4 km/s.