Frederick Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-10976201Anybody know what machine may be causing this ?... The Mail on line has a photo of a carcase for those who want to view the woundshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1304849/Windfarms-submarines-giant-sharks--What-IS-killing-Britains-seals.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Apart from the usual journalist garbage it looks like a boat propeller, there is no need to break bones as the article rambles. I have seen a human struck by a power boat, no broken bones but 52 spiral cuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted August 22, 2010 Author Share Posted August 22, 2010 Hmmm .. This seems to be a strip peeled off from nose to tail . Like you would get if a knife were used to peel an apple .. I tend to think the seals have been sucked into somthing head first . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastines Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Unless they were behaving like Lemmings I find it odd that so many have the same marks. Is it a possibilty that it's those nasty jellyfish with the killer sting that appear to wrap around a body to kill it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Today's paper suggests they were sucked in to propellers on boats going out to the wind farm off Wells-Next-the-Sea. Apparently the mutilated seals started to be washed up around the time work started there. It said there are ducted propeller devices on trawlers and tug boats going to and from the wind farm. This type of propeller is surrounded by a metal casing, making it invisible to marine life. The seals are thought to swim in to them head first, and are rotated against the blades, which would apparently explain the corkscrew-like injuries. 38 seals have been washed up off the Norfolk coast. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted August 22, 2010 Author Share Posted August 22, 2010 Sounds like it Gardengirl.... If so then the boat crews must know when they get one enter a prop shroud the engine must change note as it slows .. I suspect they are keeping quiet about it because modifications to boats cost big money .. I agree with you its is awful . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Seals are such fun to dive with, just like puppies. It's such a shame they get hurt, They used to tug on the dry suit zipper lanyards and bite your fins, all in play [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 [quote user="Gastines"]Unless they were behaving like Lemmings [/quote]Even Lemmings don't behave like Lemmings.No animal has a survival strategy that involves mass suicide (except possibly humans?)The whole 'Jumping of a cliff' thing was dreamt up by that nice Walt Disney corporation with the film crew hearding the poor little bu66ers of a cliff just to make a more interesting film- nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 The EDP report is interesting:http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/default/(If clicking on the link doesn't work copy & paste it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I once had one bite my forearm because I was refusing his attentions to my fins, it was soft like a labrador but shocked me at the time.It was in the Galapagos islands and there they called them fur sea lions, I dont think that they were indigenous just the name, they looked the same to me as the seals at Gansbaii off Capetown, a sort of MacDo's for the great white sharks.I get even more confused with the names in French, we have phoques (WTF!) ,otaries and otaries de fourrure, does anyone know the difference and/or the equivalents in english? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 A phoque is a sealOtarie is a sea-lion, otarie is the common or vernacular name for different species of the mammalOtarie à fourrure are known as fur sealsHope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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