Victims of Fukushima

[NickB79]

5. You notice none of the actual researchers state the ischaemia was caused by radiation?

The authors of the article are the ones making that leap, one so far unsupported by science at this point. White lungs are not a definitive sign of radiation poisoning, especially if there are no other organs damaged.

FYI, ischaemia in dolphins and other diving animals isn't unprecedented: https://swfsc.noaa.gov/uploadedfiles/divisions/prd/programs/etp_cetacean_assessment/lj_02_24c.pdf

See page 8, where they discuss dolphins dying of ischaemic reactions due to high-stress encounters (either with predators or humans).

Also, note this study was from 2002.

Also, studies have observed ischaemia in seals attributed to deep diving excursions: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9773490

I would be interested in the dolphin's stomach contents. If there is evidence they are feeding on fish at very deep levels, the pod may have dived too deep to rapidly, perhaps driven down by a lack of food closer to the surface by either overfishing or warming waters from climate change.