Whale deaths ruled natural causes

Posted on 02-11-2011 14:30 | By encore

oil not the cause of whale deaths. we all know that don’t we, we get dead whales washed up on papamoa beach every other day. YEA RIGHT!

Posted on 02-11-2011 13:24 | By rachstewart

A possibility could be that the sonar being used by the ship searching for containers may have been responsible for the strandings. Not only does the sonar interfere with the whales own sonar, but it is also like a high pitch screaching sound which is painful and has caused whale death/strandings in other countries.

Posted on 02-11-2011 13:20 | By bryceh

Two of the comments before this one attempt to add some humour into the equation; pathetic! Obviously "Gee Really" the autopsy needed to be performed on the whales to establish liability if the oil spill was responsible for them. Any halfwit would have worked that out! And to "Capt-Kaveman" - so you believe you know better than the officials who conduct the post mortem? Maybe you believe there is some massive government conspiracy about this?! Get a life and give up comedy.

Posted on 02-11-2011 11:35 | By Demali

Nga Potiki is the iwi that encompasses the Papamoa District.

Posted on 02-11-2011 09:54 | By Gee Really

Found a dead fish washed up on the beach a year or so ago. Didn’t occur to me that Massey University could have performed a post mortem on it, but maybe I should have asked them. I buried it in the sand immediately. Hope that was appropriate as I didn’t consult with other interested groups. Wonder if George Orwell was still alive if he would write "Marine Farm" as a sequel to "Animal Farm." All marine animals are equal but some are more equal than others.

Posted on 02-11-2011 09:26 | By Capt_Kaveman

"did not die due to the oil " who are they kidding how much sealife die on these shores? not many this whole event is becoming a laughing stock, are people that gullable

Posted on 02-11-2011 08:53 | By wreck1080

Is this ratepayer funded? What do they do?