In a series of videos uploaded to YouTube by Kirk Frase a couple of days ago, we see another seal using a boat to escape being a meal to some killer whales.
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Templeman and his group were watching the orca whales for 30 minutes when the whales’ serene mood shifted upon sighting the lone seal.
“He got close enough to see us and bee lined for the boat”, said Nick Templeman.
Templeman was the guide at the helm of the boat for Campbell River Whale and Bear Excursions, and the one who captured the encounter on camera. About a dozen orcas started circling the boat trying to find their prey. Once they gave up and left the area, the seal hopped off back in the water, but kept “hanging around the boat just in case”, Fraser said.
The tour group was boating off the coast of Vancouver Island, which is off Canada’s Pacific Coast.
Anyone who’s ever watched seals around a fishing boat knows they’re savvy hunters. “He would get in the water, swim back up and get back on the boat”.
“It was an incredible and intense encounter-the seal is the survivor”, Templeman told the news site.
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The whales finally gave up and the seal was able to go on its merry way.
