Recently, an innocent harbour seal learned this the hard way when an orca whale straight up punted him 80 feet up into the air with its tail.
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The attack was filmed by Mike Walker, the owner of Victoria-based Roll. Walker told the Huffington Post: “We do a ton of whale watching, but this is fairly rare. His name is T69C, and he was born in 1995”, Roll Focus Productions wrote in the video’s description.
Brett Soberg, the co-owner of the tour company, says in 18 years of whale watching, he’s only witnessed something like it four times but this was “the best” of those experiences and fortunately, he happened to have a camera on-hand. Killer whales living around the Antarctic coastline have been recorded swimming in a tight formation towards ice floes to create a wave that sweeps unsuspecting seals into the water, ready to be picked off by the orcas.
A spectacular video of hunting transient killer whales is starting to gain attention on the web.
And while we’re at it, here’s another video of an orca using its tail to flip a poor sea lion up 20 feet into the air.
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The 20-year-old male orca who made the kill is part of a known pod of whales referred to as the T69s.
