Or GLOBAL WARMING!
Whales die wholesale: Fact of nature. Just because we don't know a mundane reason, doesn't mean we have to clutch at fantastic ones.
>> “Just because we don’t know a mundane reason, doesn’t mean we have to clutch at fantastic ones.” <<
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Which is exactly what you’re doing!
Had they died as the photo suggests, there would not have been any carcasses to find later, they would have either rotted to jelly and dispersed across the sea bed, or been eaten by hungry predators, or both.
The boiling water of the Genesis judgement is the logical, scientificly supportable answer, since so much evidence is present to support it, in the form of universal mass deaths world wide.
But the scientific method is just not your thing.