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"Stranded killer whale rescued from B.C. bay"
Stranded killer whale rescued from B.C. bayCBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/08/16/bc-killer-whale.html
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A juvenile transient killer whale was rescued Thursday by scientists after it was stranded for weeks in a small and remote bay on B.C.'s central coast.
The whale, which scientists from the Vancouver Aquarium and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans have named Sam, was found alone in Weeteam Bay on Aristazabal Island on July 23.
The entrance to the bay is shallow and narrow, and Sam appeared reluctant to pass back through it again on his own, said Lance Barrett-Lennard, director of the Vancouver Aquarium's marine mammal research program.
Aristazabal Island b.c.
"When first discovered by a research team anchored in the bay for the night, it was calling for its mother," Barrett-Lennard said in a statement.
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