#a78

EYES A78 by Angissi

Toba(A73) near Hartley Bay in May 2019. No Magin :’(

A small motor boat tows flying boat A78 towards San Andrea Island, location of the Venice seaplane station, shortly after the famous 4 May 1918 action that had brought about its demise. A78’s pilot, 20-year-old Hungarian Franz Boros, reported that he had been forced to ditch due to a lack of fuel pressure. After alighting, he tried to find the starting handle in an attempt to either coax the engine back into life or puncture A78’s hull and sink it, but he failed and Italian torpedo-boats arrived to capture both him and his seaplane

Barkley(A110) with his uncle Toba(A78), near Hartley Bay in May 2019

Three of Calvello’s five victories were shared - with Martinengo among others - on 4 May 1918. One was Hansa-Brandenburg W 18 A78, shown here being towed through Venice to Sant’ Andrea by a small motor boat. The pilot, Flgst Ferenc Börös, was taken prisoner (Paolo Varriale)

Toba(A78) with his nephew Barkley(A110) in the background in Johnstone Strait on August 25 2018.

Toba(A78) is fifteen years old and sprouting.

At eighteen years of age Magin(A71) is nearly a full mature male; his dorsal is at about the height and size it will remain for the rest of his life baring severe injury or collapse. Toba(A78)’s dorsal started sprouting last year. A110, now two years old, has a nonscientific name, chosen from among the various names of coastal British Columbia landmarks and geography.

Their niece Springer(A73) was spotted with a new calf born in the early part this year along with her first offspring born in 2013. She is a healthy whale and producing robust offspring; by all standards her rescue and rehabilitation back in 2002 is a success.

There were few confirmed sightings of the A24s, they mainly traversed the waters between the tip of the southeastern Alaskan panhandle and central British Columbian coast. 

The listed ages of each A24 orca are estimates.

Schooner(A64) -  22 years old, adult female, matriarch, mother of two offspring

Kanish(A89) - 9 years old, juvenile, offspring of Schooner(A64)

Barkley(A110) - 2 year old male calf, offspring of Schooner(A64)

Magin(A71) - 18 years old, adult male

Toba(A78) - 14 years old, juvenile maturing male