Elephant seal rescued from Whidbey Island storm drain
By Q13 News Staff article
LANGLEY, Wash. - Emergency crews were called to Whidbey Island for a rescue on Tuesday, but it wasn t a human in need of a rescue.
Just before 7:30 p.m., South Whidbey Fire/EMS, the Island County Sheriff s Office and the Langley Police Department were called to Old Beach Road in the Mutiny Bay area for reports of an elephant seal caught trapped in a vault of a stormwater drainage system in the lawn of a condominium complex.
According to South Whidbey Fire/EMS, the vault is connected to Mutiny Bay by a large pipe, and the seal, known as Elwood, likely came through that pipe to get into the vault but was unable to get back to the bay that way.