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Dead Sea Creatures Cover 98% of Ocean Floor Off California Coast; Up From 1% Before Fukushima
The Pacific Ocean appears to be dying, according to a new study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California recently discovered that the number of dead sea creatures blanketing the floor of the Pacific is higher than it has ever been in the 24 years that monitoring has taken place, a phenomenon that the data suggests is a direct consequence of nuclear fallout from Fukushima.
Though the researchers involved with the work have been reluctant to pin Fukushima as a potential cause – National Geographic, which covered the study recently, did not even mention Fukushima — the timing of the discovery suggests that Fukushima is, perhaps, the cause. According to the data, this sudden explosion in so-called “sea snot,” which is the name given to the masses of dead sea creatures that sink to the ocean floor as food, has skyrocketed since the Fukushima incident occurred.
“In the 24 years of this study, the past two years have been the biggest amounts of this detritus by far,” stated Christine Huffard, a marine biologist at MBARI and leader of the study, to National Geographic.
At an ocean research station known as Station M, located 145 miles out to sea between the Californian cities of Santa Barbara and Monterey, Huffard and her colleague Ken Smith observed a sharp uptick in the amount of dead sea life drifting to the ocean floor. The masses of dead sea plankton, jellyfish, feces and other oceanic matter that typically only cover about 1 percent of the ocean floor were found to now be covering about 98 percent of it — and multiple other stations located throughout the Pacific have since reported similar figures.
“In March 2012, less than one percent of the seafloor beneath Station M was covered in dead sea salps,” writes Carrie Arnold for National Geographic. “By July 1, more than 98 percent of it was covered in the decomposing organisms. … The major increase in activity of deep-sea life in 2011 and 2012 weren’t limit to Station M, though: Other ocean-research stations reported similar data.”
Interestingly, Arnold does not even make a peep about Fukushima, which by all common sense is the most reasonable explanation for this sudden increase in dead sea life. Though the most significant increases were observed roughly a year after the incident, the study makes mention of the fact that the problems first began in 2011.
“Forget looking at global warming as the culprit,” writes National Geographic commenter “Grammy,” pointing out the lunacy of Arnold’s implication that the now-debunked global warming myth was the sudden cause of a 9,700 percent increase in dead sea life.
Backing her up, another National Geographic commenter jokingly stated that somehow “the earth took such a huge hit in a four-month timeframe of a meltdown via global warming and we as a people didn’t recognize this while [it was] happening; while coincidentally during that same time frame the event at Fukushima took place.”
It is almost as if the powers that be want us all to forget about Fukushima and the catastrophic damage it continues to cause to our planet. But they will not be able to cover up the truth forever, as human life is dependent upon healthy oceans, the life of which provides the oxygen that we all need to breathe and survive.
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13 Comments on "Dead Sea Creatures Cover 98% of Ocean Floor Off California Coast; Up From 1% Before Fukushima"
J-Gav on Mon, 6th Jan 2014 8:37 pm
Ecocide continues apace, as do the cover-ups and general disinterest surrounding it. This does not bode well for our species.
Northwest Resident on Mon, 6th Jan 2014 9:35 pm
I used to scuba dive off the California coast frequently. Below 40 feet or so, there is rarely a “living” creature encountered anyway — just endless expanses of sand and rock and dead material that has dropped to the bottom. Since almost all of the coast off California is 40+ feet below the surface, I have to wonder what they are seeing that wasn’t there already before. Now, if there is a sudden die-off of the organisms (fish, shells, urchins, seaweed) in the 35 to 5 foot below surface range, then we KNOW that something terrible is wrong. But finding dead brown stuff at 40+ feet off the coast of California was pretty normal 20+ years ago, and might have a very non-threatening explanation this time.
Regardless, humans are proving themselves to be capable of extremely toxic excretions — same as with deadly bacteria and virus. We are a plague upon planet earth. We’ll soon kill our host and die off, or our host will kill us first.
george on Mon, 6th Jan 2014 9:36 pm
too cheap to meter
doug on Mon, 6th Jan 2014 9:44 pm
According to deep sea news – not true.
http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/is-the-sea-floor-littered-with-dead-animals-due-to-radiation-no/
Steven on Mon, 6th Jan 2014 9:51 pm
The author of this article clearly did not read the study. The citation URL’s at the bottom reference their own site mostly. Natural News is known for a complete lack of credibility. Not worth of posting to this site.
robertinget on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 12:15 am
Ocean acidity well could be one cause.
Warmer water another.
While some sea creatures are able to move to cooler water most are stationary.
The exact same problem is occurring in the Southern Hemisphere, where alleged
Fuka Fall-Out has yet to reach.
Radiation is scary because, unlike coal
dust, exhaust fumes we can’t see, feel or taste it.
It’s likely not one single villain. Unless we blame ourselves.
PrestonSturges on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 3:08 am
Riiiiiight, enough radiation to kill jellyfish would have killed every seal and bird a long time ago.
David on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 3:14 am
Articles like this are about as credible as “proof” of alien abductions.
Welch on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 3:56 am
Why is crap like this allowed to be posted here?
shortonoil on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 2:11 pm
One of the first casualties in human beings from radiation toxicity is the immune system. If the radiation doesn’t give you cancer and kill you, some other pathogen just might get you. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the same effect taking place in other life forms. All life on the planet has the same basic chemistry.
GregT on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 4:41 pm
The oceanic ecocide has continued unabated for decades. I have spent my entire life living by, and on, the Pacific Ocean. The changes that I have seen in my lifetime alone, have been astronomical. While Fukushima is undoubtedly not having a positive net effect on the marine environment, it is but a small drop in the bucket of the destruction that we have already unleashed.
Our Oceans are dying, and the die off is growing exponentially. Eventually they will reach tipping points, and when those tipping points are reached, the Oceans will be, for all intents and purposes, dead. When that happens, our species, and all other life on Earth, will follow shortly behind.
Again, we have a choice to make, modern industrial society, or an environment capable of sustaining life as we know it. The time to make that choice is rapidly running out. It might very well be too late already, but that does not mean that we shouldn’t try.
Will we? Somehow I doubt it. The ‘Economy’ of Human greed, is far too powerful for us to abandon.
action on Tue, 7th Jan 2014 9:45 pm
If the number of surfers with cancer shoots up we’ll know for sure.
Kenz300 on Wed, 8th Jan 2014 5:21 pm
—- Nuclear energy ——
“too cheap to meter” and “too costly to clean up”