[CINC] Orca Stranding on Kauai 10/22/08]

[staci at savzsea.com]

Hello Fellow CINCers,


Debra Herring emailed me asking...
"If you find the article on the orca @ www.kauaiworld.com by reporter
Dennis Fujimoto, please post it.  I have to leave this morning at 6:45
and will be gone all day (today is Science on the Ship)." 


So here's the link ......

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/10/23/news/kauai_news/doc490014c743530738276839.txt


Staci


On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Deb4nb at aol.com wrote:

 Aloha Greetings All,
 
Before the media frenzy hits, I thought I'd send a quick note on an orca
stranding in Poipu, HI today.
 
An eighteen foot female subadult orca (determined by experts from Oahu
and Kauai) came in the surf at the popular south
shore Brenneke's Beach around midnight last night.  I wasn't on sight to
see it myself today, but told she was very thin with "whale lice." 
After spending time with the animal, the field experts decided the orca
could not be rehabilitated.  She was humanely euthanized, and taken to
an anonymous location for a necropsy and land burial.  At present time,
there have been no facts or results given.  
 
(There was a Hawaiian ceremony given for the orca, with an estimated
300+ people on the beach.)
 
Tomorrow/Thursday you can check www.kauaiworld.com for a more detailed
article in the Garden Island News.  Hopefully there will be an official
press release soon.
 
Take care,
Debra 
 
 



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