Orca got stuck and cried for hours. When rescuers arrived, something incredible happens

This young orca wailed and whimpered for her pod to rescue her after she found herself stranded on jagged rocks. Her family was helpless, but the actions of the rescuers were extraordinary.

The last place you’d imagine an orca is on dry land, yet that’s exactly what Mark Thompson discovered while investigating odd noises during a sailing trip off the coast of Washington state one early June morning in 2015.

Mark, a marine biologist, was aboard his research vessel, the SeaQuest, studying humpback whales when he heard sorrowful cries echoing from a rocky outcrop near Sullivan Point. …