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

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Enforcement officers from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife watch as
rescuers place lines and buoys around the body of the male transient killer whale CA188
in preparation for towing the whale out of the shallow waters of Dungeness Spit.


Photographs © The Center for Whale Research. All Rights Reserved.
Photo (above) by Kelley Balcomb-Bartok.