Good Samaritans, NOAA, Save Stranded Orca
A group of Good Samaritans, with some help from NOAA, helped rescue a 20-foot-long orca that was stranded on the rocks on Prince of Wales Island, just above Ketchikan in Alaska. They poured water on the 13-year-old orca for about six hours until the tide turned, and the whale, known as TD146D, a member of the West Coast transient orca population, was able to swim out to sea and rejoin its pod. The Coast Guard received the first call about the stranded whale at 9 in the morning.The orca was at least four feet above the waterline then, and the…