Whats that brown slick in the water?

[Vulcan]

It's what I would have left behind if this happened to me:

Orca expert Poppy Halliday​ has weighed in on a frightening video showing two orca circling past two swimming children.

On Thursday afternoon, an onlooker at Waiheke Island's Enclosure Bay videoed the moment two of the giant mammals approached the children.

'Stay still! Stay still!' - onlookers called to screaming children in Waiheke Island water as two orca approached.

The video shows the kids frantically trying to swim away before clinging to each other as the orca flanked them then cruised out to sea.

Video here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100868237/expert-close-brush-with-orca-no-risk-to-swimming-children

[Vulcan]

Another view:



"they're only killer... whales..."

[TheBug]

Holy cow!  I would love to see killer whales in the wild but I don't think that close. 

[Bruv119]

they had probably already eaten.   

[RUSH1]

I read there has only been one confirmed Orca attack on a human in the wild, a surfer back in the 70's.  The surfer survived and it is thought the Orca mistook the surfer for a seal. 

[Gman]

They can come into close contact in BC frequently, this was shot by a friend of mine.  A bunch of juvenille and mid aged Orcas, and  a very large matriarch, all within 6 feet of him on the shore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFFLaKFEBkY

This video I don't know it's from, but it came up in the feed for my friend video, many large orcas swimming right past local kayakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYgkWerSstk

[Nefarious]

I read there has only been one confirmed Orca attack on a human in the wild, a surfer back in the 70's. 

They made a movie remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRBIdo5KEJQ

[Wiley]

And that's yet another reason why Wiley does not swim in the ocean.  I don't want to be the guy there when everybody's looking at the video going, "Hmp.  That's only the second recorded attack ever on a human by an orca."

Wiley.

[KCDitto]

And that's yet another reason why Wiley does not swim in the ocean.  I don't want to be the guy there when everybody's looking at the video going, "Hmp.  That's only the second recorded attack ever on a human by an orca."

Wiley.

 


When I was younger and in the Marines, I used to swim in the ocean a lot. I have seen Sea Snakes off Okinawa, remember, they are more afraid of you then you are of them, so the orientation officer said. YEA I turned around and swam back.  Never seen an Orca and only Sharks from a boat.  But yes, you know you are no longer the top of the food chain swimming out there. So no more ocean swimming for me either.