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X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 02:57 PM Jan 2014

Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.

http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/is-the-sea-floor-littered-with-dead-animals-due-to-radiation-no/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Recently we at Deep-Sea News have tried to combat misinformation about the presence of high levels of Fukushima radiation and its impact on marine organisms on the west coast of the United States. After doing thorough research, reading the scientific literature, and consulting with experts and colleagues, we have found no evidence of either. In the comments of those posts and on Twitter, readers have asked us about the “evidence” of dead marine life covering 98% of ocean floor in the Pacific as directly attributed to Fukushima radiation.
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Nowhere does the paper or the press release mention radiation or Fukushima. Nilch, negatory, nadda, never.

But this is not good enough for staff writer Ethan Hunt and others outlets that continue to recycle this story.

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.

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I will also note the Fukushima disaster occurred in March 2011, five years after the researches begin to see changes in surface production. To reiterate the statements points, there is evidence of more life recently in California waters. The supposed “die off” is a common feature of any bloom of short-lived invertebrates. The “die off” was experienced at one location and with one species. The entire Pacific seafloor is not littered with dying organisms. I would also point out that these massive food falls of marine invertebrates are a common occurrence. For example, in 2002 a massive deposition of jellyfish was seen in the deep Arabian Sea.


Deep Sea News is always an interesting read.
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Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No. (Original Post) X_Digger Jan 2014 OP
OK, Check. Now let's check the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. rgbecker Jan 2014 #1
BP had the shrimp genetically modified so they could see better through the oily waters. democratisphere Jan 2014 #2
I knew there was corporate explanation. rgbecker Jan 2014 #4
not to mention the hundreds of A-H bombs lit off in the pacific ocean madrchsod Jan 2014 #3
Interesting Article. democratisphere Jan 2014 #5

rgbecker

(4,826 posts)
1. OK, Check. Now let's check the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 03:00 PM
Jan 2014

Last I read, the shrimp were showing up with three eyes.

Move along, nothing to see here.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
2. BP had the shrimp genetically modified so they could see better through the oily waters.
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 03:15 PM
Jan 2014

Sure sounds beneficially proactive to me.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
3. not to mention the hundreds of A-H bombs lit off in the pacific ocean
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 03:19 PM
Jan 2014

radioactive fish are only located in the waters surrounding the islands where a test occurred.

there is no traceable amount of radiation in the pacific ocean from these tests. the scientific theory is over time the salt and the amount of water diluted (?) radioactive particles .

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