Orca Rescue!: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer

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She Arrives January 2002 When the little whale showed up no one knew who she was A quartermaster on the Vashon ferry called my friend Mark Sears and told him there was a young orca swimming nearby Mark was skeptical He hadn't heard of any whales in the area It's an orca for sure the quartermaster said And it looks like she's alone Weird Mark thought Orcas live in tightly bonded families called pods They stay with their mothers their entire lives In more than 30 years of studying whales near Seattle Mark had never encountered an orca by itself especially a young one But the quartermaster was a reliable spotter so Mark decided to go out and have a look