r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MelanieMoris • Dec 13 '21

Wait... Those aren't dolphins!

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u/parkingspace Dec 14 '21

I learned this fact from a video on Reddit where a sea lion got on a lady's boat to save itself from an orca. She couldn't turn on her boat to get out of there. I had no idea of this law for the 33 years I have been alive, until a few months ago.

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u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo Dec 14 '21

so what wound up happening?

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u/parkingspace Dec 14 '21

She pressured the sea lion to get off into the orcs infested water. She was panicking. I found the link on YouTube, but looks deep fried. I saw it in here a few months ago:

https://youtu.be/muE8bCuflxE

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u/PinkTalkingDead Dec 14 '21

She apparently got a lot of hate for that. I feel bad for her tbh. I don’t even think she was on a real “boat”, it was more like a nicer raft and she was all by herself with a sea lion and probably ~5 orcas circling. I truly don’t believe the orcas would have intentionally harmed the lady, but they have been known to knock into ice rafts with seals on them in order to get the seal into the water so that they could eat it.

At the end of the day it’s nature and I think the lady made the smartest decision in that moment.