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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOtter Jumps Onto Boat Escaping Orca With Seconds To Spare
Well done, Mr. Otter.
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"This is the dramatic moment a genius otter being chased by a killer whale hops onto a boat for safety with just seconds to spare. In the incredible footage, captured in Halibut Cove, Alaska, on Sunday July 26, the otter is first seen roughly 200yds away from John Dornellas boat, swimming frantically as the orca follows. As it reaches Johns boat the otter swims around the outside, looking for a safe haven to climb onto as the orca closes in. Eventually, the otter jumps up onto the transom of Johns vessel moments before the whale arrives at the surface just feet away. John, 37, revealed a game of cat-and-mouse followed, with the otter hopping back into the water in an attempt to get away, only for the orca to chase it back up again three or four times. His fellow captain, Chantrelle Major, also filmed the moment from her vessel nearby, with the orca then circling Johns boat in search of the otter. Eventually, once the orca had distanced itself from the boat, John, working with Coldwater Alaska, an exploration company providing boat trips in the area, headed for his next pickup in Halibut Cove Lagoon and when at a safe distance the otter plunged safely into the water. John later discovered the orca, ID number AT163, was the largest in its pod."
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Otter Jumps Onto Boat Escaping Orca With Seconds To Spare (Original Post)
catbyte
Jan 2021
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JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)1. K n R because...
...OTTERS!
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)3. 😀
Glad for the otter. Orca...go eat vegan
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)4. Throw him back in
Circle of life and all that. Orcas got to eat too.
Just joking.
choie
(4,111 posts)5. Poor little cutie
n/t
Karadeniz
(22,573 posts)6. That is one well fed otter! Glad it worked out for him. I'm still mad at that group of orcas that
Bumped a seal off a small ice floe.