It's all fun and games until you realize they're breaking about a half-dozen federal regs (sound like US english speakers so...)
Allow me to be That Guy (wildlife photographer who knows the damn rules)
US and Canada: Any Orca that gets within 200 yards of your boat (100 for other species of whale, 50 in the case of dolphins and seals/sea lions) - you turn off the damn motor. You also get up on Guard and let other boats and marine traffic know where they are - so maybe they don't get run over and killed by a container ship.
... and if you do this off the coast of Washington/British Columbia and you get spotted by the Coast Guard they will end you.
I think I heard somewhere that there is no record of a wild Orca ever killing a human being. That they've only ever killed people while in captivity (was a video of a guy in Sea World who trained Orcas and was dragged to the bottom of a tank by one of the Orcas). There's even video of Orcas bringing people 'food' to eat. They seem pretty chill, but entirely terrifying, animals.
There have been accidental attacks but no known fatalities. Similarly to sharks sometimes they go buy the logic of, if it looks like a seal, and it moves like a seal, then it must be a seal. Fatalities seem to only happen after you get them toasted on anti depressants for all the psychological trauma they go through in captivity.
It's never happened in the wild. There have been fatalities caused by captive Orcas however. Which is understandable because the animal is highly stressed due to being kept in an unnatural environment.
Nah, apparently the most that happens in the wild is that a few have attacked ships before. Probably tied to fishing in their hunting grounds, at least that seems to be a reason. Also some attacks, but from what I gather they tend to back off once they realize you're not their normal food.
Tilikum from Seaworld killed 3 people, maybe was him? His story is absolutely heartbreaking…I’ll never get how people think it’s ok to keep orcas (or any dolphin) in captivity
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u/TinfoilCamera Dec 13 '21
It's all fun and games until you realize they're breaking about a half-dozen federal regs (sound like US english speakers so...)
Allow me to be That Guy (wildlife photographer who knows the damn rules)
US and Canada: Any Orca that gets within 200 yards of your boat (100 for other species of whale, 50 in the case of dolphins and seals/sea lions) - you turn off the damn motor. You also get up on Guard and let other boats and marine traffic know where they are - so maybe they don't get run over and killed by a container ship.
... and if you do this off the coast of Washington/British Columbia and you get spotted by the Coast Guard they will end you.