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Signal from rescued orca picked up in the Pacific
Thursday, January 10, 2002
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEAH BAY -- Researchers believe an orca rescued from Dungeness Bay last week is alive and well, heading south in the Pacific Ocean.
"We did finally pick up a signal," National Marine Fisheries Service spokesman Brian Gorman said.
The killer whale was fitted with a radio transmitter before being towed out of the shallow waters of Dungeness Spit and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca last Friday.
Researchers lost track of the whale west of Sequim later that day, assuming either the transmitter had failed or the whale had changed directions. Then a signal was picked up two days later off Neah Bay at the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula.
Researchers spent three days trying to coax the 5-ton, 22-foot orca out of Dungeness Bay. The whale had repeatedly beached itself along Dungeness Spit near the carcass of a dead female orca, which officials said could have been the male's mother.
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