Gulf's black box dolphin secrets in 'Pimp's' hands

Gulf operation high-level secrets continue

The dolphin named "Chance," the "first dolphin found alive in Alabama" since the April 20, 2010 Gulf of Mexico oilrig explosion, holds so many secrets about health and the federal government's criminal case involving the world's greatest manmade environmental and human catastrophe before Fukushima, federal authorities are preventing the accused "Dolphin Pimp" trafficker, Dr. Moby Solangi from divulging what the black box dolphin is saying.

"Chance is perhaps one of the most important witnesses in an unprecedented investigation," said Dr. Solangi, director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss.

"He's just like a black box. He's revealing some very important information as to what happened since the oil spill. A lot of information on disease, his health and other information on the environment."

According to WLOX and Dr. Solangi, he must remain quiet about what he now knows because research on the black box dolphin has to be "analyzed by federal authorities," since it's a criminal investigation. Solangi is, therefore, not allowed to "indulge in results of his findings."

Dr. Solangi's dolphin trafficking for the Navy has been questioned.

According to a written statement by Richard O'Barry, Marine Mammal Specialist, One Voice-France, Dr. Solangi has secretly captured over a hundred dolphins in U.S. waters, particularly in Mississippi Sound, and turned them over the U.S. Navy and circuses.

"These victim dolphins have been sentenced to a miserable life in sea circuses, amusement parks, the US navy and other captive dolphin facilities. Some of the captured dolphins were rented to zoos in the United States, such as the Oklahoma City Zoo."

O'Barry, star of the Academy award winning documentary, "The Cove," has characterized Solangi as a “Dolphin Pimp”.

O'Barry has exposed a zoo's dolphin exhibit related to Solangi that was finally closed when animal protection organizations exposed the high death record.

"It is therefore ironic to see how the media is now portraying Solangi as a heroic figure who actually cares about dolphins," stated O'Barry.

"Dolphin captures are carried out in great secrecy, as dolphinariums don’t want the graphic images of struggling and panic-stricken dolphins to reach the public. We will never know how many dolphins have died as a result of capture operations orchestrated by MAP but, according to a sworn statement written and signed by a former employee of Marine Life, Gulfport, Mississippi, more than twenty dolphins were killed during a single capture. Here is an excerpt from the account:

"'Every diver had a dolphin, although they could not keep their blowholes above water (…) Through the semi-circle the float corks were going under, obvious signs of netted, drowning dolphins. We could not help them, just watch until they went still. It did not take long for the dolphins to start drowning, probably because of their extreme exertion and panic. (…) One dolphin had a loop around his fluke. (…) We continued to remove the net from the dolphins, and they just slowly sank to the bottom.'

"The eyewitness account ends: 'The permanent Marine Life employees who were on that collection were later told by Moby not to discuss Marine Life business with any other employees or with anyone outside of Marine Life (...) I have since learned that there is good reason for Moby to be concerned, given the fact that Marine Animal Productions delivered at least 23 dolphins to the navy in 1988. The death of over 20 other animals would have exceeded his quota for capture by at least 18.'"

O'Barry stated, "Solangi is one of the world's biggest traffickers in captive dolphins, and his track record is a litany of violent dolphin captures and exploitation. One Voice-France hereby urges US government officials to deny Solangi a permit to rebuild another captive dolphin facility anyplace."

After the Gulf oil catastrophe, O'Barry visited Solangi's facility, finding the tanks and facilities for the most part empty.

"The treatment rooms showed little signs of use and unlike almost everywhere one went in the summer of 2010, nothing much seemed to be going on," O'Barry reported.

"Since this past winter, IMMS has been contracted by our government to engage in tissue sampling and necropsies of dead marine animals, mostly sea turtles and dolphins that continue to wash up on Gulf Beaches in unprecedented numbers.

"And the government has also made it illegal for anyone not associated with or under the same authority as IMMS to perform necropsies on dolphins or turtles from the Gulf region, citing the ongoing litigation against BP as a reason for their lack of transparency and unwillingness to share their data.

"What they have effectively done is to make it impossible for independent scientists to perform independent sampling to verify the cause of death in the ‘Unusual Mortality Event’ that continues to bring dead cetaceans and turtles onto the beaches of the Gulf."

The sickly, stranded dolphin found in Alabama was transported to Solangi's Gulfport research center to "be studied for clues to a spike in dolphin deaths that has occurred over the past year," according to The New York Times.

The Gulf dolphin die-off has been linked to Gulf Coast human suffering and deaths, according to research by New Orleans-based environmental attorney Stuart Smith.

Concern has been expressed about the Navy Five Year Weapon Testing project that includes Gulf "exercises" with an aim ultimately to massacre 11.7 million marine mammals within five years, according to the Agriculture Defense Coalition.

Concern has also been expressed about the Navy's leadership of the Gulf of Mexico operation, that overtly began in April 2010 with the largest oil leak in history.

The Coast Guard is defined by 14 U.S.C. § 1: “ The Coast Guard as established January 28, 1915, shall be a military service and a branch of the armed forces of the United States at all times. The Coast Guard shall be a service in the Department of Homeland Security, except when operating as a service in the Navy. ”

Smith has referred to the government/BP Gulf atrocity as "environmental terrorism."

Chance's blood, teeth and blubber are tested and reported directly back to NOAA and other federal agencies.

"In the scientific world, this is their smoking gun that gives them more data than they could have ever gotten from any of the dead dolphins found since the spill," wrote Rebecca Powers for WLOX.

"Which, according to some of the investigative procedures, we are not allowed to discuss. But it is very significant," Dr. Solangi said.

Chance, held in quarantine at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, is hoping along with the staff Institute Marine Mammal Studies that he will one day be returned to the wild, albeit perhaps not his home waters, now called by some locals, the "Gulf of Toxins."

The other Gulf crime smoking gun, Mr. Robert Kaluza, is free to roam in silence about what really happened to cause the suffering and dying in the Gulf and along the Gulf Coast since April 2010.

Kaluza, one of BP's managers of the exploded oil rig, refuses to testify before federal investigators, citing Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Dr. Solangi, Richard O'Barry and Robert Kaluza were unavailable for comments today.