It is frightening to witness how quickly the species succumbed to the illness, but even more so the speed with which the Purple Sea Urchins completely decimated the Bull and Giant Kelp forest's of PNW.

I've heard many different theories to what actually caused it, most scientist say that a heat wave caused it, some say it was toxic waste from the Fukushima meltdown, maybe it was an engineered sickness designed to wreck the ecosystem.

If nothing else the die-off of Sunflower Sea Stars can be used as an example to show how an entire Ecosystem can be decimated, just by removing a single component.