“Her behaviour and her acoustics changed the deeper the water got. She actually sped away from the boat and moved into this Esperanza Inlet and just really took off from the group,” said Paul Cottrell a Marine Mammal Rescue expert at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO).
DFO, the Ehattesaht First Nation and Nuchatlaht First Nation decided not to tag her with a transmitter for tracking because of concerns around infection, so she’s now on her own, but sightings will come in to help track her whereabouts.