Rescue a killer whale stranded on an island off the coast of British Columbia

TORONTO – A killer whale stranded on the shore of an Alaskan island near British Columbia has been rescued with the help of wildlife officials and the crew of a passing ship.

NOAA Fisheries, the US federal agency responsible for marine conservation, received word from a stranded orca around 9 a.m. Thursday after a private ship spotted a whale nearby. NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman Julie Fair told CTVNews.ca in an email Sunday that the whale was stuck on a rocky beach on the eastern side of Prince of Wales, located in the Alaska Panhandle near the coast of British Columbia.

At that time, the six-meter whale was about 1.5 meters above the tide line. A high tide was expected around 5:30 p.m. The whale was also vocalizing the entire time it was stranded, and other orcas were spotted in the vicinity.

“The marine mammal experts at NOAA Fisheries decided to take a wait-and-see approach, with the hope that with the next tide, the killer whale could float again and be able to leave the shore area,” Fahr said.

Meanwhile, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) allowed the ship’s crew to pump seawater into the whale in order to keep the whale wet and keep birds away until the arrival of Alaskan Wildlife Soldiers and an officer from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The tide began to appear around 2 pm and by 3 pm the tide had risen high enough that the whale could float.

“(Our officer and our soldiers) said she moved a little slowly at first and got to know a little bit before she swam away,” Veer said.

With the help of researchers at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the killer whale has been identified as T146D, a small 13-year-old killer whale from the “West Coast Transit” group.

Some observers on social media have speculated that the whale may have been stranded by the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that shook parts of Alaska on Wednesday, but Fair says there is no evidence that the quake played any role.

“The earthquake was a thousand miles away in the Aleutian Islands, and this drift occurred in southeast Alaska,” Fair said. “Live chains of whales, including killer whales, are unusual but do happen from time to time.”

It seems to have happened and Aroon says there is no mark on her pod. People are pouring water on it. Unfortunately, she hit herself on the rocks while trying to get off the beach. The good news is that the tide is coming. pic.twitter.com/HW8v9zK6Ld

– Tara Nelson (@neilson_tara) July 29, 2021

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