Elephant seal rescued from Whidbey Island storm drain By Q13 News Staff article LANGLEY, Wash. - Emergency crews were called to Whidbey Island for a rescue on Tuesday, but it wasn't a human in need of a rescue. Just before 7:30 p.m., South Whidbey Fire/EMS, the Island County Sheriff's Office and the Langley Police Department were called to Old Beach Road in the Mutiny Bay area for reports of an elephant seal caught trapped in a vault of a stormwater drainage system in the lawn of a condominium complex. According to South Whidbey Fire/EMS, the vault is connected to Mutiny Bay by a large pipe, and the seal, known as 'Elwood,' likely came through that pipe to get into the vault but was unable to get back to the bay that way.