About 10 vessels were inside the lagoon near Zeballos, using playback vocalizations of other transient killer whales, okoimi pipes and long ropes with floats and lines in the lagoon to try to move the calf to open water.
Efforts to save a young orca that’s refusing to leave a lagoon near Zeballos ramped up Thursday as tide and weather conditions started to deteriorate.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said tides will not be optimal over the next few days, with the water becoming increasingly shallow. Tide levels are expected to improve next week. “There are significant risks around utilizing more aggressive intervention methods unless deemed absolutely necessary as time passes,” the DFO said in a statement. “It would not be utilized until other options have been exhausted due to its complexity and potential risks to the calf and the responders.”
John said if the teams are successful in moving the orca out of the lagoon, the next stage — reuniting it with a family pod — will present another set of challenges.
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