Reply #8: Lack of facts is the real problem. [View All]

News stories were ran and then not followed up. The dead sperm whale found drifting, for example. We were told we'd have the autopsy results back in two weeks. The same goes for the four dolphins that were found in the early weeks of the disaster.
You write about the whales avoiding the oil. Their "smell" is their sonar, and it's a big unknown if dolphin and whale sonar can detect dispersed oil. In addition, "carpet bombing" Corexit from the air would guarantee that a good many dolphins and whales had dispersant's going into their blow holes and into their lungs.

There is also the matter of footage shot by an independent person who claims that he saw up to one hundred dolphins either dead or dying. One of the stills he offered certainly shows at least two dolphins floating belly-up:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8646017

Also, there were reports back in early June of dolphins and sharks showing up extremely close to the shorelines in large numbers in apparent attempts to escape the approaching oil slicks. Then there was absolutely no follow ups on this. Did they escape, and journalists merely forgot to mention it, or did BP prevent journalists (and scientists) into the documented areas to find out what became of them?