2018 Encounters
Encounter #7 - Feb 13, 2018
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Photos taken under Federal Permits
NMFS PERMIT: 15569-01/ DFO SARA 388
Date: 13-February-18
Sequence: 1
Encounter Number: 07
Enc Start Time: 12:02
Enc End Time: 12:32
Vessel: Mike 1
Observers: Mark Malleson/Ken Balcomb
Pods or ecotype: Bigg's Transients
Location: Victoria's waterfront
Begin Lat/Long:48 19.8/123 25.4
End Lat/Long:48 20.8/123 23.7
Encounter Summary:
I received a call from my friend Gord Rowles who spotted killer whales slightly east of Race Rocks through his Big Eyes from his 23rd-floor apartment. I was just finishing up breakfast with Ken who came over on the morning Coho for a meeting with me.
Ken and I left Victoria Harbour at 1139 and at 1202 came across T087 with the T124A2's and T124C traveling north east west of Constance Bank. At 1215 they got a seal which they divided up for several minutes before they proceeded to travel east when we left them at 1232.