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Windows smashed and passengers injured as 'freak wave' hits cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea


New Zealand Herald
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:07 UTC
The cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas was battered by a 'freak wave'.
© Glenn Taylor
The cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas was battered by a 'freak wave'.
Windows were smashed and passengers were injured after a 'freak wave' hit the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship on Monday.

Cruise Law News reported that the wave hit the ship at about 4am on Monday (local time) as the Royal Caribbean vessel sailed to Ajaccio, Corsica.

Five windows were broken, passenger cabins were flooded and some passengers were reportedly injured.

Passenger Kerry Boyd tweeted, "Woke up at 4:30 am on our cruise first night when 5 windows on our floor burst open flooding the floor with sea water. All well, but tired"

Another passenger, Todd Scuderi, also tweeted about the incident.

''I'm on Rhapsody of the Seas. Last night 4am wave hit ship and knocked out my window and 4 others on deck 3. lucky we weren't swept out," he wrote.
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Attention

Signs and Portents: Goat 'born with the face of a human baby' in Malaysia

Rachel Bishop
Daily Mirror
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:31 UTC
The carcass of the kid that possesses unusually human-like features
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The carcass of the kid that possesses unusually human-like features
A shocked farmer shared pictures of the strange-looking creature, which people have claimed is a fawn - the mythical fusion of goat and human

A farmer has spoken of his shock after he found a newborn goat had the face of a human baby.

Ibrahim Basir shared pictures of what people have claimed is a fawn - the mythical fusion of goat and human - after it was born in the village of Felda in southern Malaysia.

The kid did not last long after its birth and its carcass has now been handed over to the Veterinary Services Department.

Villagers offered Mr Basir, 63, money for the carcass, but instead, he decided to hand it over to the experts to enable them to carry out an investigation on the strange-looking kid.

The strange-looking baby has been handed over to the Veterinary Services Department for investigation
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The strange-looking baby has been handed over to the Veterinary Services Department for investigation
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Fish

South Florida corals dying from 'unprecedented' bleaching and disease

David Fleshler
Sun Sentinel
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:00 UTC
Florida coral bleaching
© Sun Sentinel
South Florida's corals are turning white and contracting fatal diseases in what's being called an unprecedented die-off across the region's reefs.

Off Hollywood, scientists witnessed the collapse of a minivan-sized coral colony that had started growing more than three centuries ago, when the Spanish ruled the peninsula. As recently as September, live coral tissue covered 90 percent of the colony's surface, making it among the oldest living things in the state. By December it was almost completely dead, said Brian Walker, a Nova Southeastern University research scientist, who found widespread mortality in corals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

"We saw a variety of diseases across the different corals," he said. "Some of the disease was recently active and had killed off a significant portion of the colony. It's wiped out entire species from parts of the reef. They're usually bleached white. You can see areas of just bare skeleton."


Comment: 93% of Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffering from coral bleaching

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Increasing earthquake and volcanic activity: Prepping for natural disasters

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:19 UTC
Ecuador earthquake survivors
© Dolores Ochoa/Associated Press
Residents recover their belongings days after an earthquake in Pedernales, Ecuador, Wednesday, April 20, 2016.
All over the world seismic activity is increasing. In recent weeks we have seen a dramatic earthquake in Ecuador, more than 600 earthquakes have experts extremely alarmed about what is happening to Japan's southern Island, and 37 volcanoes around the planet are erupting right now. Most of the large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that we have witnessed lately have come along the Ring of Fire, which is an area of seismic instability which roughly encircles the Pacific Ocean. Fortunately the west coast of the United States has been spared so far, but scientists tell us that tension has been building up along the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia Subduction Zone for decades, and they assure us that it is only a matter of time before we see a major event. What that day arrives, will you be prepared?

There were a couple of notable seismic events which took place on Monday. First of all, the largest volcano in Russia's Far East known as Klyuchevskaya Sopka violently erupted. Steaming hot ash was shot more than three miles up into the air, but fortunately it is not a heavily populated area. This represents yet another major volcanic eruption along the Ring of Fire, and this has some scientists extremely concerned about what may be coming next.

Here in the United States, an unusual swarm of 21 earthquakes along the Arizona-Nevada border is also raising eyebrows...

Comment: As well as the recent increase in seismic and volcanic activity, check out the March edition of SOTT's Earth Changes Summary for more extreme weather, planetary upheaval and meteor fireballs.
Record heavy spring snowfalls, destructive tornado outbreaks, planes falling out of the sky, catastrophic flooding on every continent, metallic 'sky sounds' heard in diverse locations, multiple meteor fireball sightings, mass animal deaths, sinkholes swallowing moving vehicles... These were just some of the signs of the times in March 2016...
Further information on being prepared:

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Snowflake Cold

A sign of what lies ahead? It's nearly May but it's snowing with 'thundersnow' in London

Matt Hunter
Daily Mail
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:54 UTC
UK late spring snow
© North News & Pictures Ltd
Thunder, lightning and sleet showers are expected with some in northern areas witnessing heavy snowfall.
Snow and sleet has fallen in many parts of the UK as temperatures struggle to get into double figures with the prospect of a Spring-like May a long way off.

It's almost May but forecasters are warning the unsettled picture will continue for much of the week with freezing conditions in many parts.

Thunder, lightning and sleet showers are expected with some in northern areas witnessing heavy snowfall, including on the North Yorkshire Moors and parts of Scotland.

It is the latest widespread snow has been seen in the UK since May 6, 1997, when more than 200 weather stations recorded it.

Before that forecasters have to go back to April 27, 1985 when several London weather stations recorded sleet.

Snow even stopped play at The Oval cricket ground this afternoon as the south was dusted in the white stuff.

The type of snow flurry seen in London is known as 'thundersnow'. It is a phenomenon caused by heavy showers accompanied by lightning storms.
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Attention

Dead whale found grounded in Gardiner's Bay, New York

Taylor K. Vecsey
The East Hampton Star
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:20 UTC
A drone photograph captured the sight of the dead whale grounded in Gardiner's Bay on Monday afternoon.
© Dell Cullum
A drone photograph captured the sight of the dead whale grounded in Gardiner's Bay on Monday afternoon.
A dead whale has run aground in Gardiner's Bay, leaving East Hampton Town officials trying to figure out what to do about it.

A bayman reported what appeared to be the carcass of a small humpback whale in the water on Sunday morning, according to Ed Michels, the chief harbormaster. Coast Guard Station Montauk searched for it but did not locate the 20-foot whale until Sunday evening, Mr. Michels said. As of Monday afternoon, the carcass had become stuck on the bay bottom and was belly up in shallow water about 500 feet from the shore between the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett and Promised Land, he said.

Mr. Michels said he did not know any specifics about the type of whale or how long it had been dead. Right now, his main concern is what to do about it, he said, adding that he has given Supervisor Larry Cantwell two options: Leave it alone and let Mother Nature run its course, or try to tow it to shore and dispose of it, a process that comes with a hefty price tag. "If we go touch it, it's going to cost thousands."
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Attention

Dead humpback whale washes up on beach in Newport, Rhode Island

Alana Cerrone
abc6.com
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:10 UTC
Dead whale
Nestled against the rocks at the end of Hazard's Beach in Newport is what appears to be a dead humpback whale.

Andi Flax is one of dozens who came out to see it. "A friend posted some pictures on Facebook and it's not something you see everyday so we thought we'd come pay our respects."

In fact, it's been drawing Rhode Islanders from all over the state, like Jillian Borgia.

"We saw it on Facebook...we drove from Bristol to come down and see the whale!"

Some locals say the whale's been here since Sunday, but the question now is what's going to happen to it next?

"My question is how did it get there and what do you do with it? Study it, burn it, leave it there?"

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Fish

Officials probing fishkill on beach in Barbados

Heather-Lynn Evanson
Nation News
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:03 UTC
big eyed jacks
Hundreds of big eyed jacks have washed up on a stretch of East Coast beach and environment officials aren't quite sure why.

Right now, their best guess is low oxygen levels in the water.

Yesterday morning the dead silver scale fish were the first thing that greeted Kim Somerville, who walks the Cattlewash, St Joseph beach every weekend.

She journeyed to the area for her weekly ritual, when she came across the sight.

Some of the hundreds of jacks on the beach at Cattlewash, St Joseph.
© Heather-Lynn Evanson
Some of the hundreds of jacks on the beach at Cattlewash, St Joseph.

Comment: Maybe this event was connected to the seismic activity that was recorded a few days earlier? See this:Barbados rocked by magnitude 6.9 earthquake

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Arrow Down

Whales found stranded around North Sea had stomachs full of plastic debris

Amanda Froelich
Natural Blaze
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
stranded whales
The whales' deaths are symbolic of humanity's shocking disregard for marine life.

In January, 29 sperm whales were found stranded on shores around the North Sea, an area that is too shallow for the marine wildlife. Only recently were details of the animals' necropsy released. However, scientists were deeply disturbed by what they found in the animals' stomachs.

According to a press release from Wadden Sea National Park in Schleswig-Holstein, many of the whales had stomachs FULL of plastic debris, including a 13-meter-long fishing net, a 70 cm piece of plastic from a car and other pieces of plastic litter.

Some suggest that the animals thought the items were food, such as squid, which is their main staple. Others, however, believe that the travesty is largely a result of humanity's shocking disregard for marine life, which has resulted in an overabundance of plastic in the oceans.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill woman, 18 cows and 4 pigs in Thailand

Rarinthorn Petcharoen
Bangkok Post
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:58 UTC
Huge thunderstorm leaves trail of death & destruction across two provinces, destroying homes, crop fields, trees, killing many animals & one human.

Huge thunderstorm leaves trail of death & destruction across two provinces, destroying homes, crop fields, trees, killing many animals & one human.
Huge thunderstorm in Nan & Phrae leaves trail of death & destruction, homes, crop fields, trees, destroyed, leaving many animals & one human dead.

In the northern Thai provinces of Nan and Phrae, summer thunderstorms struck with lightning strikes that killed one person and several animals on Monday night.

An elderly woman, Singha Prachuap, 60, was found dead in her orchard in Den Chai or Phrae.

She had taken refuge in a small shelter that collapsed on top of her during the storm.

Twenty-two cows and pigs died from lightning strikes and hundreds of homes were damaged.
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