7 Whales stranded, 4 dead on a beach in Punta Aderci, Italy

Seven sperm whales were stranded on the beach of Punta Penna in Vasto. Four do not have it done. The whales were spotted this morning, September 12, by some surfers who have experienced the Harbour. Immediate emergency procedures. On site there are veterinarians ASL provincial Chieti. The cetaceans were followed by a few days in the Adriatic after being spotted for the first time in Croatia.

You are trying by all means to keep alive the remaining three. Cetaceans have a length between 11 and 12 meters weighing about 11 tons each.

“It is one of the heaviest environmental disasters of this region.” They are the first statements by the mayor of Vasto, Luciano Lapenna after beaching in Punta Penna seven sperm whales. “We have activated all the procedures and was prepared at our town hall a crisis unit to follow the evolution of the situation.”

“This is an extraordinary event that looks like a phenomenon, even more tragic proportions, which occurred in 2008 in Madagascar: over one hundred whales spiaggiarono on the coasts of the north east of the island.” This was stated by the regional director Peter M5S Smargiassi reminiscent as then “At 50 kilometers away Exxon-Mobit had performed operations of air-gun, a seismic reflection technique used to locate oil fields.”

“Without going so far away geographically, remember the seven sperm whales beached and died in Peschici in December 2009 and, also in the province of Foggia, the most recent episode of the little dolphin stranded in Marina di Lesina last 27 August- continues Smargiassi – explains Maria Rita D’Orsogna, the air-gun consists of “very strong and continuous shots, every 5 or ten minutes, compressed air that send waves reflected from which to extract data on the composition of the subsurface. Often, though, these shots are harmful to fish, because they can cause damage to the fish, and especially hearing loss. “

Here’s what’s happening in our Adriatic sea, with petrolizzazione of croaker Sea and Sea Toad “, insists the Regional Council.

“We are not scientists and we can not assume the right to say for sure, but by ordinary citizens seems legitimate to have the doubt that there is a connection between the petrolizzazione and one so unusual stranding of cetaceans, which is known to use a system of echolocation based on the sounds for orientation. Sperm whales Punta Penna were part of a group of cetaceans known and monitored: possible that no one has noticed their loss of direction? You could not do anything to prevent the death of sperm whales? The responsibility for what happened in Punta Penna invests the entire political class, no one can feel excluded, “closes.

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