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Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Orca Project. History. Photo by Kelly Balcom -Bartok. History. Photo by Kelly Balcom -Bartok. History.
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Port Townsend Marine Science Center Orca Project
History Photo by Kelly Balcom-Bartok
History Photo by Kelly Balcom-Bartok
History In 2008, a visitor to the PTMSC casually mentioned the skeleton, wondering whether anyone had claimed it. Questions, emails and correspondence with NOAA bounced back and forth until the PTMSC were given a long term loan of the skeleton for use in education. In May, 2008, PTMSC staff and an AmeriCorps team joined a group of scientists and volunteers on the Sequim farm. The skeleton lay inside a bright orange net, covered with a thick growth of nettles and lush grass. The skeleton was carefully uncovered, the bones labeled and tagged and then loaded on a truck bound for the NOAA lab in Seattle. There the bones were cataloged, soaked and cleaned of the cartilage and dried tissue that still remained.
History In March, 2009, the PTMSC received the bones, and the real work began.