BP Buys The Dolphin Necropsy Results Too!

Chump
Change In The World of BP!
March 18, 2011

Meet Victim #153. Today it is reported that yet another dolphin neonate has washed up
on the shores of Biloxi Mississippi. This makes this the 153rd dolphin that we have
tracked from verifiable news reports that has died in and around the Gulf region. We
include in our count the dolphins found washed up on South Carolina's beaches, since the
M.O. appears to be similar, and we believe they deserve to be counted.

We read today, March 18th, 2011 that scientists are basically claiming a "no result" status
to these multiple deaths. We've heard all the reports of suspicion - cold weather, rapid
snow melts, potential red tide, low oxygen levels, and way down at the bottom of the list,
the potential that they died due to the oil, chemicals and/or methane released into their
home, the Gulf of Mexico, by none other than BP.

We're not supposed to jump the gun. We're supposed to be patient and let science do
what needs to be done to be able to declare, beyond a reasonable doubt, what science
determines to be the exact cause of death.

That is of course, unless, the science itself is bought and paid for by none other than the
potential killer - BP.
A March 8th, 2011 story (Ref. 1) run by Alabama Live (al.com) titled "Cold water influx
in Gulf may have delivered fatal blow to dead dolphins" quotes:

"Graham Worthy, a University of Central Florida researcher who ran the state of Texas’
dolphin research program for a decade, said it may be impossible to pinpoint the exact
cause of death for the 90 animals that have been recovered this year."

Graham Worthy, the researcher with decades of experience would like us to believe that
it may be "impossible to pinpoint" the exact cause of death" for the (then) 90 animals
recovered this year.

Of course he would like us to believe that. When BP is bankrolling your research, you're
loyal to your funding sources, right Mr. Worthy?

In a College of Sciences news report on September 20, 2010, (Ref. 2) we learn that
Graham Worthy - the SAME Graham Worthy making statements and working on the
dolphin necropsy samples is recognized as:

"UCF Biology Professor Graham Worthy and his research team are studying bottlenose
dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico to determine how safe it is for humans to eat fish caught
by recreational fishermen."

Further, Graham Worthy is quoted as saying:

“Ultimately we want to see what the effects of the spill are on the dolphins,” Worthy said.
“What they eat, we eat.”

Sounds like he has only the best concerns of the public interest at hand...until you read
further:

"The research project is funded through the $10 million dollars BP gave to the Florida
Institute of Oceanography (FIO) Council after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The FIO
is a union of 20 public and private marine science centers and institutes located in
Florida. The FIO chose 27 research projects to fund with the BP backed fund totaling
$9.5 million dollars in August."

And equally disturbing is Graham's statement regarding Corexit:

“We are also trying to determine if there are signatures of dispersants in the ecosystem,”
Worthy said. “The impacts of the dispersants aren’t really known.”

When BP is paying for your research, it's only to qualify the end result reduces or
eliminates the liability of the sponsor in creating a synopsis that alters with scientifically
skewed results, the outcome of any research done, as to help perpetuate and continue the
fraud against the people, sea life, and businesses that know and recognize the old adage,
"if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck."
In this case, it looks like BP - and further reinforces the need for IMMEDIATE
INDEPENDENT TESTING of the root cause of these dolphin deaths surrounding the
Gulf of Mexico.

We need not be reminded that as mammals, they're not much different than people, and
the expectation by many still persists that we are next in the chain of disaster.

Accept nothing less than independent, non-BP sponsored labs, and scientists and
researchers. We deserve nothing less. And the dolphins deserve so much more.

Reference 1: (http://blog.al.com/live/2011/03/cold_water_may_have_delivered.html)

Reference 2: (http://news.cos.ucf.edu/?p=68)

Updated 3/15/2011 - The following information represents data collected by IMMS from
marine mammal strandings in Mississippi and Alabama in 2011.

Life Stage Legend Overview

Calf = shorter than 150 cm Total dolphins found in MS and AL for 2011 53

Juvenile= 151 to 209 cm Total calves found in MS and AL for 2011 41

Adult = longer than 210 cm Total calves found in MS 23

Unk= Unknown Total calves found in AL 18

Total dolphins found in MS and AL for 2011 61

Juvenile= 151 to 209 cm Total calves found in MS and AL for 2011 45

Adult = longer than 210 cm Total calves found in MS 24

Unk= Unknown Total calves found in AL 21

Life stage classifications shown above are basic descriptions of bottlenose dolphin age
classes in the northern Gulf of Mexico and may change when further information
becomes available. In addition, these classifications may differ from life stage
classifications used in other geographic locations.

Date - Number - General Location - State - Life Stage

IMMS Stranding Summary 2011 last updated March 15, 2011 at 1 pm cst
1/3/2011 1 Ocean Springs MS Adult

1/4/2011 2 Cat Island MS Juvenile

1/15/2011 3 Dauphin Island AL Calf

1/17/2011 4 Dauphin Island AL Calf

1/28/2011 5 East Ship Island MS Adult

1/29/2011 6 Gulf Shores AL Calf

1/31/2011 7 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/6/2011 8 Ship Island MS Calf

2/7/2011 9 Dauphin Island at end of Ponchartrain Court AL Calf

2/7/2011 10 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/7/2011 11 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/8/2011 12 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Juvenile

2/10/2011 13 Orange Beach AL Calf

2/13/2011 14 Sand Island (off Petit Bois) MS Adult

2/13/2011 15 Pascagoula MS Calf

2/14/2011 16 Pelican Island (off Dauphin Island) AL Calf

2/17/2011 17 Biloxi Beach MS Calf

2/18/2011 18 Horn Island MS Unk

2/18/2011 19 Horn Island MS Calf

2/18/2011 20 Gulf Shores AL Calf

2/20/2011 21 Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/20/2011 22 Biloxi MS Calf

2/21/2011 23 Gulfport MS Calf

2/21/2011 24 Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/22/2011 25 Horn Island MS Calf

2/22/2011 26 Horn Island MS Calf

2/22/2011 27 Horn Island MS Calf

2/22/2011 28 Horn Island MS Calf

2/22/2011 29 Gulf Shores AL Calf

2/23/2011 30 Weeks Bay AL Calf

2/24/2011 31 Singing River Island MS Juvenile

2/24/2011 32 Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/25/2011 33 Pascagoula MS Calf

2/25/2011 34 Long Beach MS Calf

2/25/2011 35 Dauphin Island AL Calf

IMMS Stranding Summary 2011 last updated March 15, 2011 at 1 pm cst

2/25/2011 36 Horn Island MS Calf

2/25/2011 37 Horn Island MS Calf

2/26/2011 38 Cat Island MS Calf

2/27/2011 39 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Calf

2/27/2011 40 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Adult

2/27/2011 41 Mobile Bay AL Calf

2/27/2011 42 Gulfport MS Calf

2/28/2011 43 Gulfport MS Calf

2/28/2011 44 Pass Christian MS Calf

2/27/2011 45 Cat Island MS Adult

3/1/2011 46 Long Beach MS Calf

3/3/2011 47 Orange Beach AL Juvenile

3/3/2011 48 East Ship Island MS Calf

3/3/2011 49 East Ship Island MS Calf

3/4/2011 50 Pass Christian MS Juvenile

3/7/2011 51 Waveland MS Calf

3/5/2011 52 Cat Island MS

3/10/2011 53 Pass Cristian MS Calf

3/12/2011 54 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Adult

3/11/2011 55 Petit Bois Island MS

3/13/2011 56 Ocean Springs MS Juvenile

3/12/2011 57 Dauphin Island AL Calf

3/14/2011 58 Ship Island MS Calf

3/14/2011 59 Ship Island MD

3/14/2011 60 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Calf

3/14/2011 61 West Point Island, Dauphin Island AL Calf