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Title: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: Vulcan on January 25, 2018, 06:10:25 PM: It's what I would have left behind if this happened to me:

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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.

(https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/2/m/f/2/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1o1yfh.png/1516923320199.jpg)

Video here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100868237/expert-close-brush-with-orca-no-risk-to-swimming-children
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: Vulcan on January 25, 2018, 06:16:55 PM: Another view:

"they're only killer... whales..."
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: TheBug on January 25, 2018, 06:45:32 PM: Holy cow! I would love to see killer whales in the wild but I don't think that close.
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: Bruv119 on January 25, 2018, 06:49:05 PM: they had probably already eaten.
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: RUSH1 on January 25, 2018, 07:49:44 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: Gman on January 29, 2018, 12:32:52 AM: 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
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: Nefarious on January 29, 2018, 06:45:05 AM: Quote from: RUSH1 on January 25, 2018, 07:49:44 PM
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
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: Wiley on January 29, 2018, 10:04:08 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Whats that brown slick in the water?
Post by: KCDitto on January 29, 2018, 09:32:27 PM: Quote from: Wiley on January 29, 2018, 10:04:08 AM
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.

:rofl

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.