NYCkayaker whale in gowanus canal?

[mike]

Update on curbed it is a baleen whale
baby whale" has been spotted in the Gowanus Canal. Specifically, the
Coast Guard reports a baleen whale around 22nd Street, which is the Red
Hook part of the Canal. Officials from the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation and the Riverhead Foundation went to check on
the whale with an underwater listening device. The thinking is the whale
might have gotten separated from its mother. Bad timing, given the
amount of sewage that's flowed into the canal because of the