'Perfect unison' of oikomi pipes not enough to coax baby orca over sandbar that fatally beached mother

About 10 boats herded the young whale towards the exit of the B.C. lagoon at high tide, but the two-year-old whale refused to swim over the sandbar where its mother died last weekend to the open ocean.

'Perfect unison' of oikomi pipes not enough to coax baby orca over sandbar that fatally beached mother
a canoe full of people paddle near an orca whale

About 10 boats herded the young whale towards the exit of the B.C. lagoon at high tide, but the two-year-old whale refused to swim over the sandbar where its mother died last weekend to the open ocean.