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00:00Yeah, it's amazing.
00:28So, what we have here in the basin of the Catalina Express boats is a minke whale, which
00:43is the smallest of our baleen whales.
00:45This one's a sub-adult, probably about 18 to 20 feet long, and it's been in the Port
00:50of Los Angeles for five days now, three days in this particular basin, which is very shallow,
00:57only 15 to 20 feet deep.
01:11The officials from National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA Fisheries, helped with lifeguards
01:17and a couple of other groups managed to get the whale to go outside of this harbor three
01:22times earlier today.
01:23But it got to a bridge behind me, and where the shadow of the bridge is cast on the water,
01:29the whale didn't seem to want to go past that shadow.
01:31They're visual feeders.
01:32They feed on schooling fish, as well as on shrimp-like organisms called krill, and it
01:37just didn't seem to want to do that.
01:40You can actually see the body, that dark shadow under the water, and then you're able to see
01:57the head coming up.
02:05No boats are moving fast here, but this isn't a good place for it.
02:08It needs to get back to the open ocean.
02:11These minke whales are resident.
02:13They aren't migratory, and they eat fish right outside of our harbor.
02:17We've been seeing them out here.
02:19There's only an estimated 509 minke whales between California, Oregon, and Washington
02:24combined as of 2023, so we're really hoping this minke whale, who we've nicknamed Bob,
02:29Bob the minke whale, leaves the harbor.
02:40We don't know what brought the whale here.
02:42We don't know if it followed a school of fish.
02:44We don't know if it came close to the harbor and took a wrong turn.
02:47We don't know if it's extra curious and has an explorer gene and wants to check out the
02:51area, new and exciting sites.
02:54So it could stay here for a fair amount of time, but it's going to need to find some
02:59schools of fish.
03:00It's primary prey.
03:01And also, the food in the harbor isn't the best food as far as the whale's concerned.
03:06There's all kinds of different man-made products, like in the water.
03:10So we really need to get the whale back outside the harbor.
03:29It is very exciting to see a whale this close, because this never happens, it's not usual.
03:50So you have to pay to see whales, and even though you pay, you don't see them this close.
03:56So it's very exciting to see a whale this close.
04:17I found out about it from some news on YouTube.
04:22And since I like the whales, I decided to come here and try to see it.
04:27And I'm lucky to see it.
04:28So I'm very happy about it.
04:52We saw it a couple times, and now we're just camping out, hoping that we get another chance
04:57to see it.
05:09Hoping that it goes back home, because it may not be the best place for it to stay here.
05:14Hopefully it finds its way back home.