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An oil spill that began on Saturday reached a new phase on Monday, and divers were able to begin a plan to plug and recover any remaining oil that went down with the Aleutian Isle, a 49-foot vessel that sank off the west side of San Juan Island.
49-foot boat goes down west of Sunset Point, near Sidney, with about 9,800 litres of diesel and oil on board
Six young orca calves were separated from their mothers in 1970 and sold to marine parks. Only one is still alive at the Miami Seaquarium
Tucked away in the northwest corner of the U.S., nearly 28,000 miles of shoreline surrounds the natural wonders of Washington—from the nearly 1 million acres encompassed in Olympic National Park through the oak woodlands, subalpine meadows and ponderosa pine forests sprinkled across the state.
It's estimated the young calf is only a few months old, and its future is still up in the air.