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Search for Answers about 'Big Miracle' Whales
from the Seattle Times
SEATTLE -- Hardly anyone is unaware of the plight of the three gray whales that were stranded
under the ice near Barrow, Alaska, in 1988--especially since the release of a new movie, "Big
Miracle," which documents the two-week international effort to save them.
Less known is the precise fate of the whale that didn't make it; it disappeared under the ice
as rescuers battled to rescue the remaining two.
But a marine biologist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in
Seattle thinks he may know the answer. The young whale, he believes, may have been scared off
when someone mistakenly played recordings of killer whales, a sound that would terrify a gray
whale, or at least create an urgent desire to leave.
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