| Whales and pollution should not go hand in hand | | | | Sound. Whales and pollution through sound is also of |
| however, the fact is they do, whales are greatly | | | | serious concern explorations for petroleum causes |
| affected by human actions that bring together whales | | | | continual underwater booms. Military operations using |
| and pollution. | | | | lower-level sonar that can cast up to 230 dB near the |
| * Contaminants | | | | source. The activity from cruise ships, ocean liners, |
| * Sound | | | | tankers and submarines, all contributing to noise |
| * Plastic | | | | pollution that can seriously affect the marine life |
| Contaminants. Whales are polluted from contaminants | | | | including whales. Pollution by sound can cause whales |
| dumped in to the oceans, chemicals which cause | | | | to abandon natural habitat and go off course also |
| whales pollution, are harbored in their fatty tissues and | | | | throwing off their ability to hunt affecting whales |
| organs, contaminated with PCB and DDT's from as | | | | communications systems through loud background |
| long as 30 years ago, highly toxic levels were found in | | | | sounds, the blue whale in particular, whose sound can |
| beached whales today. Other whale pollutants | | | | travel over 1000 miles, enabling it to communicate with |
| prevalent are flame retardant's PBDE that travel many | | | | others now because of sound pollution, its range is only |
| miles in the atmosphere and PFOs that do not break | | | | a 10th the size of what it was. |
| down ever, being passed on in the food chain, up to | | | | Plastic. Whales and pollution from plastic, it may be fun |
| human level. Some chemicals are endocrine disruptor's. | | | | to see released balloons, watching them float off into |
| The Transient killer whales are susceptible to pollution | | | | the distance, but did you consider where they might |
| from toxic substances that weaken their immune | | | | end up? Floating hundreds of miles, ending up in side |
| system, also making them more prone to problems | | | | mammals, sea turtles, dolphins and otters also mistake |
| with reproduction, increasing the chances of more | | | | them for jellyfish swallow them, which instead of |
| whales with pollution. Belugas also called sea Canaries | | | | providing nourishment block their digestive tract and |
| because of their harmonious voices. Evidence shows | | | | end up killing them. The area of the Pacific ocean |
| that a high number of beluga whales have pollution | | | | almost from Japan to Hawaii is home to an enormous |
| from the St. Lawrence River region and died of | | | | floating plastic debris pile from basketball's, grocery |
| cancer. Autopsies also revealed a high level of | | | | bags to toys, some have been ground up floating in |
| exposure to PAHs, the Alcan aluminum plant is | | | | small confetti like particles. This area is a vortex where |
| upstream, and poisonous metals from it end up in the | | | | the ocean circulates slowly because of little wind and |
| water, even though this plant has reduced air | | | | extreme high pressure systems, it's growing each |
| emissions, the whales eat small invertebrates that live | | | | year, this plastic garbage comes from people throwing |
| in toxic sentiment, who eat contaminated algae, which | | | | garbage from cruise ships oil platforms and plastic |
| adds to belugas demise. The toxins that they ingest | | | | pellets from industry. paddling in plastic |
| stay in the fat cells they are passed on to the fat rich | | | | Interesting fact it takes only a quart of oil or some |
| milk for their calf's this in turn is passed on to the next | | | | kinds of paint to contaminate many thousands of |
| generation, and so on, building up with each one. Puget | | | | gallons of water, creatures that rely upon |
| Sound Alaska is facing the decline of salmon, Orca | | | | waterproofing (fur feathers) can die of hypothermia |
| populations are also dropping as they eat the salmon. | | | | from just one drop. |