400 Dead Dolphins washed up along Zanzibar coast

[katty]

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12533135/

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 1:59 p.m. ET April 28, 2006
ZANZIBAR - Hundreds of dead dolphins washed up along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Zanzibar's northern coast, and scientists on Friday ruled out poisoning.

“We started noticing them last night. All are adult dolphins. We could do nothing but photograph them,” said a hotel owner who preferred not to be named.

It was not immediately clear what killed the estimated 400 dolphins, whose carcasses were strewn along a 2.5-mile stretch of Nungwi, said Narriman Jidawi, a marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Science in Zanzibar.

[glitch]

1. Heart breaking. nt

[mitchtv]

2. Navy sonar test in the Indian Ocean?

Just guessing, maybe not even our navy

[Divernan]

3. U. S. Navy sonar - hope someone autopsies at least one of the dolphins.

Saw comment from someone at Woods Hole that whenever there was a group beaching by whales or dolphins you could bet the Navy was using their sonar in the area.

[katty]

4. yes, that is quite likely-so sad