Transients in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, September 6, 2008 photo by Dave Ellifrit. This photo was taken under MMPA permit #532-1822 and/or DFO license #2006-08/SARA-34. T46B with new calf T64B2 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, September 6, 2008. photo by Astrid van Ginneken. This photo was taken under MMPA permit #532-1822 and/or DFO license #2006-08/SARA-34. T30A several miles off Dungeness Bay, September 6, 2008. photo by Dave Ellifrit. This photo was taken under MMPA permit #532-1822 and/or DFO license #2006-08/SARA-34. Transient whale does a spyhop in the calm water of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, September 6, 2008. photo by Erin Heydenreich. This photo was taken under MMPA permit #532-1822 and/or DFO license #2006-08/SARA-34. T30A surfaces in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, September 6,2008 . photo by Stefan Jacobs. This photo was taken under MMPA permit #532-1822 and/or DFO license #2006-08/SARA-34. The T30's kill a harbor porpoise off Victoria B.C., September 6, 2008. photo by Ken Balcomb. The Center for Whale Research staff working hard to ensure that the Transients are well documented, September 6, 2008. photo by Stefan Jacobs. Straitwatch collects the remains of the harbor porpoise for analysis in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, September 6, 2008. View Larger Map Vessel track of Encounter #47. Encounter #47 September 6, 2008 Transients Platform: Orca Departed Snug Harbor: 10:20 a.m. Begin Encounter: 1:37 p.m. Start Lat: 48° 17.111 N Start Long: 123° 20.039 W End Encounter: 3:15 p.m. End Lat: 48° 15.66 N End Long: 123° 17.02 W Returned to Snug Harbor: 4:48 p.m. Observers: Dave Ellifrit, Astrid van Ginneken, Erin Heydenreich and Stefan Jacobs The Center staff traveled from Eagle Point to Race Rocks in search of rumored transients, September 6, 2008. Canadian whale watch boats were reporting the T30's and T46B's on the radio, but by the time Orca arrived on the scene the whales were lost in the fog bank. As the fog cleared, the Center staff encountered T30B, T46B1, T46B, T46B2 traveling in a loose group off Port Angeles at 2:02 p.m. A few hundred yards away, the rest of the T30's (T30A, T30C, and T30) were encountered at 2:27 p.m. At 2:45 p.m. the group of T30's, now joined by T30B, made a kill on a harbor porpoise. After the whales moved on from the kill and rejoined the T46B's, Center staff observed a pair of lungs still attached to the rib cage floating on the surface of the water. Straitwatch soon came over to collect the harbor porpoise remains for analysis. The encounter ended at 3:15 p.m. a few miles northwest of Dungeness Bay. POSTED: 2:00 p.m. September 9, 2008