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Researchers are optimistic that 2 humpback whales are back in the ocean today after an unusual 2-week stay in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The whales, spotted late Tuesday off Tiburon, could have made it out of the Golden Gate any time after dark.

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TechnologyExpert
May 30, 2007, 6:55 p.m.
"They could be anywhere," said Carol Singleton, spokeswoman for the state Office of Emergency Services.
"The hope is that they're home and they're safe," Singleton said. "It would be nice to have a dramatic ending where we're standing on the Golden Gate Bridge as they pass under. But most important is that they're in safer water."
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B1BLancer
May 31, 2007, 7:53 a.m.
I can't help but wonder how much taxpayer money was wasted on this effort, which in the end, probably didn't make one bit of difference one way or the other. Whales have been taking care of themselves quite well for a very long time. And believe it or not, the world is not going to end if a couple of them die.
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TimALoftis
May 31, 2007, 8:50 a.m.
Great ending to a story that I have been watching closely.
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aceofspades1
May 31, 2007, 9:59 a.m.
I wonder if they had have gone to the extent they do to save errant whales if their papers were in order.
Illegal aliens who can't even mow a lawn.
Is that whale racism?
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mssofie
May 31, 2007, 10:24 a.m.
Once the publicity and the photo shoots ended their lime light faded and they went home.
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OldRusty
May 31, 2007, 11:06 a.m.
God dam they would have been good on the bar-b-Q.
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scabbio
May 31, 2007, 11:48 a.m.
A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats funny rusty
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abntv
May 31, 2007, 1:46 p.m.
I guess I can put my fishing rod and bait can back in the closet.
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Hobe
May 31, 2007, 2:15 p.m.
'Bon Voyage, Whales! - rescuers believe they're back at sea'
'Great ending, God Bless The Whales'
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DANIEL16
May 31, 2007, 2:37 p.m.
A few years back they had a story similar to the whale in San Fransisco where some kids put lighter fluid on a seal and set it on fire and it lived so what ever government funded veterinarians nursed the seal back to health and they showed it live on tv on when the seal was swimming back into the ocean and it gets about 30ft out and shark comes out of the water and eats all on live too.
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eviln3d
May 31, 2007, 3:26 p.m.
All we really needed to do was call the Japanese, they could have gotten rid of that pesky whale problem. Hell they might have even paid us to let them do it.
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mamasan
May 31, 2007, 4:43 p.m.
Yay!!!
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sotiris-k
May 31, 2007, 5:18 p.m.
There is something more important than money . Not that the money spent by paparazzi and life purpose free celebrities in their daily games can even begin to compare with a few thousand $ spent on whales out of which you can count marine biology/science learned something. There is even something more important than winning. It is how you lose that matters the most. Do you lose standing up and doing the proper thing? So be it. If you did your best to support a whale mother and kid and they still failed so be it . Your heart's decency is not a loser. We are responsible for that failure to begin with because all those land-delta-bridges-rivers formations are of our making. And if they made it and in the process they provided smiles and optimism of purpose in this still caring for nature society to thousands of little kids and great evening trips with their families even better i say one more reason to leave your heart in San Francisco.
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scabbio
May 31, 2007, 6:47 p.m.
people who relate terrorism to saving whales in any way are deranged. DERANGED. jesus why be so morbid
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3096yew
June 1, 2007, 2:27 a.m.
The reason the whales are off course is because the navy uses high intensity sonar (sometimes in massive quantities)to block the "enemy" and it disrupts marine life....so massively somtimes that is blows the eardrums out of dolphins (there are pictures of this)when they "crank it up" so to speak. Some marine life, esp. whales and dolphins, use their own sonar for hunting, navigating etc. and this navy sonar totally disrupts them in every way. In fact, for them it's like living with a jack hammer beside you wherever you go, indefinitely. That's why some of them beach themselves. They can't ake it any more. It is all done behind everyones back, but it's destroying what is left of marine life.
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3096yew
June 1, 2007, 2:37 a.m.
Lately, unknown to most, the navy sends out massive amounts of under water sonar which totally disrupts the marine life in every way. They can't navigate, hunt for food and basically many beach themselves because they are tired of living beside the equivalent of a "jack hammer" their whole life. No doubt the whales in the Sacramento River suffered the same fate. There are pictures of dolphins with their ears blown out from navy experiments when they "turned up the sonar" so to speak. For anyone who cares, it's time to stop this.