Talk:Whale fall

message: This article uses feet to describe the depth of the fall. Should it be converted to meters? 2000ft = 609m, 6600ft = 2011km.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.145.124.27 (talk) 14:15, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Metric System

message: Someone please tag as "needs picture".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.202.0.41 (talk) 02:15, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 03:24, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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message: Why would a blubbery animal such as a whale fall at all when it dies? You'd expect the carcass to float. Difluoroethene (talk) 15:30, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: All species of large whale sink when they die, some more than others. Even bowhead and right whales occasionally sank after they were killed by whalers (one of the ways many were lost). Blue, fin, and sei typically sank, as did humpback and gray. Sperm were said to sink the least often (at least during the open-boat era). During the modern era they had to pump the whales full of air to keep them afloat. SaberToothedWhale (talk) 02:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sinking? 

message: reference 2 "http://www.columbia.edu/~rwb2103/whale/whalefallintro.html Whale fall intro." is broken. Slibville (talk) 20:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: , thanks. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 10:20, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

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message: What is "lateral advection" that is described in the Contribution to the biological pump section? I think it would be helpful to either provide a link here or to provide a short definition. I also think that there needs to be an extra comma in that sentence so that it reads: "Lateral advection of carbon, especially in coastal areas, contributes to this deficit in the model, but food falls are also another source of organic carbon for the deep ocean". Mnjenkins22 (talk) 13:57, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I know nothing about all this, but following the "be bold" wikipedia guideline, I added a link to the advection page (which I discovered when doing it :-) ). As for the "lateral", I can only guess it means stuff moves around the same depth, not from bottom to surface or the reverse. But I fully agree, the whole paragraph is very technical. Jrob kiwi (talk) 15:12, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
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message: How long does it take for a carcass to reach the sea floor?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:1DE0:8FB0:C4BD:22C8:872C:946A (talk) 02:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  How fast do they fall? 

message: Given the large number of ships which have sunk to the deep ocean over the years, some of which would have hundreds or even thousands of humans on board (as well as other animals such as cattle and horses), ghoulish as it may seem, has anyone tried looking at these ? The Yeti (talk) 15:18, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: a quick web search yielded this, which seems to confirm your assumption: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-021-00978-y (a scientific article from April 2021, so maybe it was written in response to your posting :-D ) Jrob kiwi (talk) 15:05, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
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