Orca Keeps Circling Boat, Then A Passenger Sees What’s On Its Back

A cluster of otters

He couldn’t imagine what it was like for the otters trying to navigate it. “What a terrible situation.”

The closest group of otters was clustered near a section of kelp that had survived the dredging, three adults and what looked like two pups, pressed together and barely keeping position against the current stirred up by the machinery.