Video shows a young orca surfacing in Friendly Cove on Friday
A killer whale calf whose struggle for survival captured international headlines when she became trapped in a Vancouver Island tidal lagoon earlier this year only to escape on her own has likely been spotted swimming further south along British Columbia’s coast.
The apparent sighting comes about 24 hours after Bay Cetology issued a statement saying the young whale had not been seen since May 10 despite numerous documented glimpses of members of her family. Halle is on a sailboat voyage circumnavigating Vancouver Island and said she and her husband were commemorating her late father’s 85th birthday while docked at Friendly Cove when she heard a splash, which sounded like a seal.
The young killer whale — named kwiisahi?is or Brave Little Hunter by the area’s Ehattesaht First Nation — became the subject of international attention in April amid efforts to free her from the lagoon where her mother had become stranded on a rocky beach at low tide and died.
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