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The Living Force
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Seems to have been happening for several months, noticed first last November:
“In the middle of the night in November 2023, scuba diver Gregg Furstenwerth shone his flashlight on a fish swimming through a seagrass meadow in the Florida Keys.
What he saw surprised him: The distressed pinfish was spinning and whirling in upside-down circles. Puzzled, he recorded the behavior with his underwater camera.
When he heard more and more similar reports of spinning fish from friends and other divers, Furstenwerth began to document more incidents, both from his boat and from walking docks at night.
At first, the sightings occurred mostly along a 35-mile stretch of water in the lower Keys, a tropical archipelago of islands south of mainland Florida. Then, three reports surfaced in Miami, according to conservation group Bonefish Tarpon and Trust, and most recently, one case in the upper Keys.”
Fish along the Florida Keys are spinning in circles until they die—and no one knows why
Scientists are chasing clues, but haven't yet found what's causing the strange behavior. “It is very strange to see such a prolonged event affecting so many different species.”Seems to have been happening for several months, noticed first last November:
“In the middle of the night in November 2023, scuba diver Gregg Furstenwerth shone his flashlight on a fish swimming through a seagrass meadow in the Florida Keys.
What he saw surprised him: The distressed pinfish was spinning and whirling in upside-down circles. Puzzled, he recorded the behavior with his underwater camera.
When he heard more and more similar reports of spinning fish from friends and other divers, Furstenwerth began to document more incidents, both from his boat and from walking docks at night.
At first, the sightings occurred mostly along a 35-mile stretch of water in the lower Keys, a tropical archipelago of islands south of mainland Florida. Then, three reports surfaced in Miami, according to conservation group Bonefish Tarpon and Trust, and most recently, one case in the upper Keys.”
Fish along the Florida Keys are spinning in circles until they die—and no one knows why
Scientists are chasing clues, but haven't yet found what's causing the strange behavior. “It is very strange to see such a prolonged event affecting so many different species.”
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