T019B
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Celebratory Breaches – 26/3/24
The T018s and T049As were hanging around in Spieden channel and as we were getting on scene a sealion hunt initiated. While these hunts normally took hours, this hunt took 2 minutes! This was the fastest sealion hunt I have ever witnessed. T019B breached multiple times in celebration of a successful takedown! -Tom
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Massive Breach from Sprouter – 8/8/20
We battled today through some rough conditions to catch up with the T018’s in the Strait of Georgia. They were quite spread out and I was hanging out with T019B “Galiano” for a while and could see his brother, T019C “Spouter” in the distance. Just as I started to head over towards him, he did…
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A Rare Visit from Bigg’s Killer Whales – 12/3/20
Over the past number of years, I have had the opportunity to take my grade 9 students from Calgary, Alberta on an outdoor school trip to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on Vancouver Island. During this 5-day trip, students get to participate in activities that build on their learning at school, while immersing them in…
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A Decade Long Relationship with T019B “Galiano”
My relationship with Killer Whales started when I was a child for a young girl growing up in Ontario. The water in the Great Lakes was fabulous but I was shattered when to discover that there were no whales in them! I eventually made my way to the West Coast and finally out on the…