Alert Bay BC, photo by Ken Weiner This month started with a trip to the Home of the Killer Whale (Alert Bay), where we were invited to a potlatch by our friend Anne Jackson. It was an incredible two days in the Big House, where we ...
Springer’s Matriline! Springer, Spirit, and her new calf. Photo Caitlin Birdsall, Ocean Wiese Fifteen years ago, Springer (A-73) swam out of her holding pen in Dong Chong Bay to meet her waiting family. She had been returned to her ...
Springer and New calf, Photo by Lisa-Spaven ORPHAN ORCA SPRINGER GIVES BIRTH TO SECOND CALF BEFORE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF RESCUE CELEBRATION JULY 21–23 AT TELEGRAPH COVE, BC The heroic rescue in Puget Sound fifteen years ago of the ...
Celebrate Springer Flyer In January 2002, a young female orca was spotted in Puget Sound near the north end of Vashon Island. Springer (A-73) was lost, alone, and 300 miles away from home. Over the next six months she was rescued, ...
The 10th Anniversary of Springer’s homecoming was celebrated in Telegraph Cove, B.C., July 12 – 15. Members of the project team reunited, some of them for the first time in 10 years. While Springer herself got the dates a ...
Ten years ago, an orphaned orca named Springer (A73) appeared in Puget Sound – lost, alone, and 300 miles away from home. Six months later, she was rescued, rehabilitated, and reunited with her pod near the north end of Vancouver ...