We think ... the ice retreated really quickly. We think the mothers had to keep up with the ice and the babies couldn't keep pace and were left behind. |
We were on a station for 24 hours, and the calves would be swimming around us crying. We couldn't rescue them. |
We would sail to a particular location and stay there for 24 hours at a time, and one or two of these pups would swim up to us, and the poor little guys would just bark at us for hours on end. It was really awful. I wouldn't go outside. |