Dr Würsig ran up the beach after the animal missed him by about 1 metre. A single individual, possibly as big as 9 metres (30 ft), beached towards him while he was watching sea lions about 200 metres (650 ft) away from him in hopes of taking a photograph of an orca hunt. In 1989 American researcher Bernd Würsig published an article about having been attacked by a orca on a beach of the Valdes Peninsula.Īn orca beaching to capture sea lion on the beach of Valdes Peninsula The male arrived on the scene twenty minutes after the capture, probably prompted by the distress calls of the female. In 1962 off Bellingham a male orca attacked a boat towing a female orca on a rope, that had been live-captured for an oceanarium.At one point he lifted the boat " clear out of the water".
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The whale was able to get free and chased the vessel for some time.
The rest of the pod likely died of starvation. As the ice thickened, two to three whales were taken by Inuit hunters, and three more were harpooned but tore the lines (made of seal skin). However, the researchers weren't able to directly confirm the predation on the man, as one of the elders clearly stated that he hadn't witnessed the event himself while the other didn't clarify whether he had. Two Inuit elders stated to a research team that one of the animals chased the young man, broke the ice under him, then killed and ate him. A pod of orcas (likely 10-12 animals) was trapped in a polynya, and a young man visited the site in spite of advice from elders to wait until the ice was strong enough. 1955, an Inuit man fell prey to an orca entrapped by ice in Grand Suttie Bay ( Foxe Basin, Canada). In the early 1910s, the Terra Nova Expedition recorded that orcas had attempted to tip ice floes on which an expedition photographer and a sled dog team were standing.There are a few recorded cases of wild orcas threatening humans. Experts are divided as to whether the injuries and deaths were accidental or deliberate attempts to cause harm. In captivity, there have been several non-fatal and four fatal attacks on humans since the 1970s.
In the wild, there have been multiple killer whale attacks on humans, however less than captive orcas. Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful apex predators.
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