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Stranded: A whale of a mystery

Scientists generally agree that sonar can trigger strandings of certain whales, but no one really knows what leads these deep divers to the beach

By Rachel Ehrenberg

- More than 2 years ago

Off the eastern edge of AndrosIsland lies the Tongue of the Ocean, a hundred-mile, inky blue swathe of sea over the GreatBahamaCanyon. Bounded on the south and east by the shallow sands of the Bahamas banks, the seafloor drops precipitously from 3 meters near shore to more than 2,000 meters farther out.