Deep Blue Resort Utila

Hi

In the story below about the Pilot Whale beachings I mentioned about earthquakes, apparently I did not explain it correctly and I was contacted by a gentleman called Captain David Williams who has been working on this phenomenon for 40 years he has a website and I would strongly suggest that people should read it, look at

http://www.deafwhale.com/

Then for more on the actual strandings look at

http://www.deafwhale.com/why_do_whales_strand/

If you would like more in depth details about seaquakes look at this page.

http://www.deafwhale.com/why_do_whales_strand/seaquake_waves.htm

I really would like to thank David for contacting me, and please if anyone hears of strandings I would suggest contacting him as it may assist with his research.

Hi

This week I am sorry but some sad news of 5 Pilot Whales who beached themselves on Utila.

There are lots of different thoughts on why whales do this, some are sonar from things like submarines, another thought is underwater natural noise such as an earthquake, there have been whale beachings since before the days of submarines.

If you look at this website

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_xmaq.html you will see that there was an earthquake in the area a few days before, could it have anything to do with it ????

Skin samples were taken and will be examined.

This story has created a lot of news even in the International Herald Tribune

www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/08/news/LT-Honduras-Dead-Whales.php

Here are some photos of the sad event.

Hi All

I am sure as divers a lot of you know the film, My Life Aquatic starring Bill Murray and a host of other stars, it is a play on the old Jacques Cousteau films that a lot of us were raised watching, here is a photo of him wearing his famous red hat.

In the film, The Life Aquatic, they have parodied this by keeping the red hats, See pictures from the movie here.

Well there has built up around this film a huge cult following and a couple of weeks ago we had famous Steve Zissou Society photographer Joedy Hargis here at the resort ( If you believe that you will believe anything) and here are some of the photo’s he took whilst in Utila, with the staff and customers joining in the fun.

Hi All

I would just like to tell everyone about a great guy we had staying at the resort a couple of weeks a go Pup Morse, not only a great guy and a good diver but a great musician who writes all of his own songs and has a lot of songs about Scuba diving, have a look at his website http://www.Justascubacowboy.com and you can hear some of his music.