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

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Rescuers and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officers watch as the male
transient killer whale CA188 swims towards freedom off Port Angeles. The buoy (towing
directly behind the whale's dorsal fin in the photo above) fell off while rescuers looked on.


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