• Madison420@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Gunna bet it’s a result of the earthquake, water is great at sound transfer and if they were close enough it could have just killed them outright.

      • Wrench@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Iirc, sardines require cool currents to get through warm(er) water. There’s a thing called the sardine run, where a specific area in the migration path has a (relatively) narrow cold water current that forces them into a bottleneck, and predators feast in a huge spectacle.

        What I’m guessing happened was these poor guys were following a cold current that disappeared, and died of heat exhaustion. Which iirc isn’t that uncommon of an occurrence

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        11 months ago

        This one sounds more logical and likely. But not as conspiracy-fun as the nuclear water one

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      11 months ago

      This comment shows that you don’t understand anything about the tritiated water release.