---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 11:34:00 GMT From: r.mallon1@genie.com To: marmam@uvvm.uvic.ca, pita@whale.simmons.edu Subject: Odds and Ends Odds and Ends By The Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- The Coast Guard thought it was rescuing a stranded killer whale from waters three miles off Key West. But the whale picked up Sunday was 4-feet long, plastic and inflatable. An unidentified person who reported a stranded killer Orca whale apparently was fooled by the black-and-white inflatable toy, with "Shamu" printed on its side, Coast Guard officers said. "It did look like a marine mammal," said Lt.j.g. Rich Condit, spokesman for the Coast Guard's station in Key West. Killer whales have been spotted off the Key West coast.