Category: Currents

eanne Hyde is almost always listening to what whales have to say. Hyde works at The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. She documents all she can about what goes on...

new surveillance plane is set to help monitor fisheries and catch illegal activity in the waters off Vancouver Island. Contracted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), the aircraft will be based out of Campbell...

icknamed “Lucky,” and officially labeled L124, an Orca calf first spotted in January continues to live in Puget Sound. The calf was the first known to be born in the area of the sound...

arm waters and infectious disease have been determined as the causes of a die-off of sunflower starfish along the Pacific coast, says a recently released study. Sunflower sea stars are among the largest starfish...

he City of Vancouver is extending its free mobile sewage pump-out service for boaters in False Creek. Council voted on Feb. 13 to allocate $75,000 for the program this year. Utilizing a pump-out boat,...

here is a killer or killers on the loose, shooting sea lions dead, assassination-style. So far, 18 carcasses have been found washed up on the shores of Puget Sound. Source: Sea lions have enemies....

his mother orca, known as J-35, has been balancing the body of its dead calf on its nose for seven days as of Monday. The calf died shortly after it was born on Tuesday off the...

his story of a crazed seal has been all over the news here in the Broughton Archipelago. We are somewhat late in posting it because we haven’t had cell or WiFi for some time,...

hat’s turning local waters an amazing milky turquoise colour that you would expect to see in the tropics? It’s a question the Marine Detective been asked a lot on the northwest side of Vancouver...

here are times, chatting with other cruisers, when someone says, sometimes as a confession, sometimes defiantly, that they don’t stern tie. You take a deep breath, or you don’t, depending on your nautical politics,...