Two whales may have died after military war games exercise off Scots coast
military war games mission off the Scots coast.The Sowerby beaked whales were stranded on the shoreline in Musselburgh and Gosford earlier this month.A team of experts from the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme carried out necropsies on both the stricken animals to determine their cause of death.No signs of infection, disease, boat strike or entanglement were discovered prompting fears they may have died from decompression sickness caused by underwater noise.A massive international war games exercise - Groupex - took place off the east coast of Scotland between September 21 and October 15.It formed part of the Exercise Joint Warrior 2020 mission which saw more than 6000 military personnel and dozens of warships from 11 countries