Orca Strandings and Rare Events
Transient Orca Stranding and Rescue
Dungeness Spit, Jan. 2-4, 2002

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Using his body weight as leverage, Jeff Foster torques the dorsal fin of the male transient
killer whale CA188 in an attempt to straighten the animal up so that Jenn Schorr (right)
may place a line under the male's fully submerged, but partially beached pectoral fins.
[Note the Time-Depth recorder (TDR) attached by suction cup to the side of the whale.]


Photographs © The Center for Whale Research. All Rights Reserved.
Photo (above) by David Ellifrit.