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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean on Sunday after lingering for a week near a bridge about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
The mother humpback and her calf passed under the Rio Vista Bridge and were spotted near the city of Pittsburg, near a confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, said Greg Hurner, a senior adviser with the California Department of Fish and Game.
As efforts to coax the mother and calf back to the Pacific Ocean dragged into a third week, veterinarians earlier Sunday swabbed samples from bumps resembling blisters or lesions on the whales' skin.
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