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Try refreshing your browser, or Well-known orca dies in Johnstone Strait surrounded by family, dolphins Back to video tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Play Video Article content I76, a 28-year-old male well known to researchers and whale watchers around the North Island, died at the entrance to Blackney Pass. Towers, executive director of Bay Cetology and an Alert Bay resident, watched as the big male took his last breath. 'I've had to change the official status of many northern resident orcas from alive to deceased over the years, but I have never watched one pass until this day,' Towers said in a social media post. Towers said I76 was with his 45-year-old mother, 22-year-old sister and three-year-old nephew during his final moments. 'During [the] years, I watched him grow. I watched him socialize, forage, sleep, beach-rub and play, always alongside his kin,' Towers said in the post. 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