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Another beach becomes littered with thousands of dead fish in Cornwall, UK


Pirate FM News
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 12:22 UTC
Dead fish on Cornwall beach
Dead fish on Cornwall beach
More dead fish have washed up in Cornwall - on a different beach.

At the beginning of December, Pirate FM told you about thousands littering the shore at Pentewan.
Now more have beached at Marazion - and were discovered by a dog walker on Saturday.

David Hughes spotted them at low tide and strangely, revealed seagulls and his dog did not seem to want to go near them.

David said: "Just got back from a walk on the beach at Marazion, Cornwall and noticed thousands of fish which I believe to be Mackerel washed up on the beach at low tide.

"Interestingly, the seagulls were not interested in these fish even though they looked very fresh and our boxer dog did not even try to eat them?

"Would be interested if you hear of any reason this may have happened".

Dead fish

Comment: See also this earlier December report referred to above: Thousands of dead fish found on beach near St Austell, UK

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Seismograph

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off Solomon Islands


Sputnik
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:05 UTC
Richter magnitude scale
© AFP 2016Richter magnitude scale
The submarine earthquake took place at 05:46 GMT just 83 kilometers away from the island provincial capital of Kirakira and was at the depth of over 39 kilometers (24 miles), according to the USGS.

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Igloo

Spinning ice disc filmed on river near Houghton Lake, Michigan

Ben Hooper
UPI
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:20 UTC
ice disk
A Michigan woman on a snowmobiling trip captured video of a bizarre phenomenon: a disc of ice slowly rotating on the surface of a river.

Karla S. Dahms posted a video to Facebook showing the strange rotating ice circle she spotted in the Muskegon River, near the city of Houghton Lake.

Dahms said she had never seen anything like the ice disc in the river before.

Researchers determined the ice discs occur when cold air comes in contact with an eddy in the river and the ice forms into a circle, which rotates due to the current it creates by slowly melting.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills one in Malawi; third such death in the country within a week

Takondwa Velemu
Nyasa Times
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:07 UTC
lightning
A lightning strike has killed a man in Machinga district .

Police confirmed that Erick Idrissa aged 26 of Kambona Village, Traditional Authority Bwananyambi, Mangochi died suddenly after he was hit by lightning on Friday afternoon.

The deceased went to play football at Namasika Primary School Ground but soon after the match, heavy rains started accompanied by lightning.

He was hit by the lightning while rushing to seek shelter.

Postmortem results from Nainunje Health Centre revealed that the death was due to shock lightning.
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Attention

Dead sperm whale discovered beached in Samal, Philippines

Yas Ocampo
Manila Bulletin
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 17:05 UTC
Beachgoers and residents gather around a beached whale in Babak, Samal on Saturday, December 17, 2016. The whale was alive Friday night, but died Saturday
© Dean OrtizBeachgoers and residents gather around a beached whale in Babak, Samal on Saturday, December 17, 2016. The whale was alive Friday night, but died Saturday
A 37-foot sperm whale washed up in front of a resort along Babak district in the Island Garden City of Samal.

The giant marine mammal was found beached on Friday night, December 16 before dying Saturday.

Cetacean expert Darrell Blatchley, who responded to the beaching, said the whale's carcass will be transported across the Davao Gulf to the Bone Museum in Davao City.

Curious residents and beachgoers gathered around the whale, which was already bleeding by Saturday.

A backhoe was used to slowly drag the whale toward the shore. One netizen shared on Facebook the hauling of the whale.
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Black Cat

Bobcat attacks animal control officer near school in Odessa, Texas

Chelsey Trahan
kcbd.com
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:32 UTC
bobcat
A scary moment for Bowie Middle School in Odessa, a bobcat was spotted on their campus.

The animal was tranquilized twice after trying to attack an animal control officer and died.

"Our intent was not to kill the bobcat. The intent was to subdue the threat and relocate it," said Cpl. Steve LeSueur of the Odessa Police Department.

Police say they have had bobcat sightings in the past, mainly on the outskirts of town.

"It's not uncommon for them to come into the city limits, especially kind of on the outline areas, especially near Commanche Trail Park and other areas like that," said LeSueur.

"If you do see it in the daytime, like this one was, chances are, it could be rabid," said Midland County Game Warden Patrick Merriman.

Comment: See also: Two hurt in bobcat attack in New Scotland, New York

Woman attacked by bobcat outside her home in Luverne, Alabama

Bobcat attacks woman sitting on a bench in Solvang, California

Massachusetts man attacked by bobcat in his garage

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Health

Diver bitten by shark near Perth, Western Australia

Kim Macdonald
Perth Now
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:57 UTC
Shark attacks
A Scarborough diver recovering from what is believed to be a shark bite claims fishermen gutting fish on the beach are attracting sharks to the area.

Tim Roberts said he had noticed a big increase in the number of sharks and other dangerous sea life, including stingrays, because of the fish tails and guts that wash out to sea after fishermen gut them on shore.

Mr Roberts, 61, was diving 100m offshore on Wednesday when what he believes was a shark punctured his left foot four times through his fin.

"I swam like crazy after I felt that," he said. "I was waiting for the inevitable big bite, but it never happened."
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Health

Shark bites man's foot in New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Katie Kustura
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:19 UTC
Shark attacks
A 19-year-old New Smyrna Beach man suffered a shark bite to his right foot while surfing, according to a report.

Shane Garthwait said he was floating on his board when he felt a sudden tug on his right foot, which was dangling in the water, according to the questionnaire filled out for the Florida Museum of Natural History with the University of Florida.

The shark, which Garthwait didn't get a good look at, left a 1½ inch cut on the top of Garthwait's right foot, a half-inch cut on the back of his ankle and some bruising on his foot, according to the report.

Garthwait said he'd been surfing south of the Jetty for about an hour when he was bit Sunday afternoon and had seen two sharks swimming in the area prior, according to the report.

Garthwait declined treatment and said his father, a nurse, would look at the wound later, according to the report.
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Fish

Mass fish deaths under investigation at Lake Tutira, New Zealand

John Weeks
Stuff
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:03 UTC
Dead eels at Lake Tutira this week. Hawke's Bay Regional Council is investigating.
© Stevie Smitd/HBRCDead eels at Lake Tutira this week. Hawke's Bay Regional Council is investigating.
Another fish kill at troubled Lake Tutira in Hawke's Bay has authorities concerned.

About 20 dead or dying eels were found, and there were reports this week of dead trout at the lake, about 40 kilometres north on Napier.

It is the second time this year that a major die-off has been detected.

In January, trout and eels died en masse in an event thought to be linked to low levels of dissolved oxygen in the lake's surface water.

"Fish kills have not been uncommon. However, the occurrence of two large fish kills in two consecutive years is unusual and of particular concern," Hawke's Bay Regional Council said on Thursday.

Another victim at Lake Tutira this week.
© Stevie Smitd/HBRCAnother victim at Lake Tutira this week.
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Bizarro Earth

Minor tsunami 'threat' after 7.9 magnitude quake hits off Papua New Guinea


RT
Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:49 UTC
Papua New Guinea earthquake map
© earthquake.usgs.gov
A powerful earthquake, initially measured at magnitude 8.0, has hit east of Papua New Guinea, according to the US Geological Survey. The tremor prompted New Zealand's Civil Defense to issue a tsunami warning, which was soon canceled.

"Widespread hazardous tsunami waves are possible," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said in a message after the quake, which struck the New Ireland region of Papua New Guinea at a depth of 73 km.

The tsunami waves are forecast to reach one to three meters above the tide level along some coasts of the archipelago in the South West Pacific region.
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