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Article: Whales Linger Near Freedom; Soviet Icebreaker Makes Final Passes
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- The Washington Post
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- October 28, 1988
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Rescuers left the fate of two California gray whales to a Soviet
icebreaker, the Vladimir Arseniev, tonight in what they said was the
last push in a nearly three-week effort to free them from the Arctic
ice.
At dusk, the whales were 1,000 feet from open water, and rescue
coordinator Ron Morris said "they're so close {to open water}" that
after the Arseniev makes its final two or three passes within 10 or
20 yards of them, the whales are expected to swim into open water at
last.
Rescuers said tonight that spotters aboard the Arseniev and
another Soviet icebreaker, the Admiral Marakov, had seen two seals
swimming in open water just beyond the last ice that held the whales.
A bubbling ...