When a baby porpoise was spotted in distress off southern Vancouver Island, onlookers quickly came to the rescue.
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Winterburn noticed a hiker had discovered a baby harbour porpoise in distress in the shallow water.
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Allen took over in supporting the baby porpoise in a towel sling for the next hour while Mike went to the Sooke Basin to pick up rescue personnel that had flown in on a Whistler Air float plane, to take them to Whiffin Spit.
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香蕉视频直播淭he last I saw of the porpoise was as it was being transported back to the float plane with its caregivers. It was only a few short minutes later that I watched the plane fly overhead on its way back to Vancouver, she said.
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