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Archive Home > 2011 > December > 19 > Rare blue whale sightings off coast of Washington

Rare blue whale sightings off coast of Washington

By Craig Welch / The Bulletin
December 19, 2011

SEATTLE — He spotted the geyserlike spray from its blow hole first.

Biologist John Calambokidis was tracking humpback whales about 25 miles off the Washington coast last week when he saw what he presumed was an exhalation from a much bigger species, a fin whale.

But the creature that surfaced....

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