FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Ship blocking Suez Canal like ‘beached whale’ could be stuck for weeks” – below is their description.
A container ship blocking the #SuezCanal like a “beached whale” may take weeks to free, the salvage company said, as officials stopped all #ships entering the channel on Thursday in a new setback for global #trade.
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Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight, or drowning when high tide covers the blowhole. Cetacean stranding has occurred since before recorded history.
Several explanations for why cetaceans strand themselves have been proposed, including changes in water temperatures, peculiarities of whales’ echolocation in certain surroundings, and geomagnetic disturbances, but none have so far been universally accepted as a definitive reason for the behavior. However, a link between the mass beaching of beaked whales and use of mid-frequency active sonar has been found.
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