An orca calf that spent over a month stranded in a remote lagoon on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada swam out of the lagoon on her own early Friday morning, according to the Ehattesaht First Nation.
Rescuers with multiple organizations, the Canadian government and tribal agencies have spent the past two weeks thinking of ways to free a killer whale calf from a lagoon near Zeballos, British Columbia after its mother became stranded on a gravel bar and died on March 23.