Not true:
I think that anyone that thinks an Orca, a top predator that kills seals for fun won’t kill a human is living in La La land.
Unlike humans, I think Orca's kill for food, we may possibly be on their poison list.
They do it for fun as well as teaching, plenty of videos showing them playing with seals until they are dead, also great whites with a single killing bite taken from them. It’s fanciful in the extreme to think if presented with the opportunity they wouldn’t do the same with a human. It’s only because there is very little chance of direct interaction in water between our species and Orcas that deaths and attacks are not reported
Animals in theme parks are not 'wild'. They do not behave as they would in the wild.
There is still no evidence that Orca kill humans in the wild. They are clearly intelligent and have displayed creative ways of catching prey. Yet there are no reports, even anecdotal , of them killing humans.
Because the two species are never in the water together. If you wish to test your theory go out onto the water find a pod and swim amongst them, a black wet suit and some nice big fins will help. I am sure you will have a wonderful and exciting experience
That would be stupid, I'd deserve whatever happened. My point is that they are quite capable of getting to us if they wanted to yet there is no evidence of that happening. With the rudder incidents, the Orca are quite capable of sinking the boats then picking off the crew in the water yet that doesn't happen.
It doesn’t happen with great whites either because they have learned about swimmers of the beaches there is nothing to say that Orcas won’t attack humans if the opportunity or need arises.
Join the telegram group. there masses of data on there & inside the 20m contour line has been shown to be very safe by the lack of incidents with many hundreds of passages through waters where incidents did happen in deeper water.
I took the inshore route once and found it comparatively stressful at night. A plethora of unlit and poorly marked pots and buoys put me off the idea. Without wishing to tempt fate, I've been up and down that coast many times over the last few years and haven't even seen an Orca yet, let alone have one pay me any attention. I'll take pot luck for the moment (but with one ear and eye open to fresh ideas!).
everyone else seems to manage it OK.....
Oh I managed it fine, it was just a PITA in comparison.
agree pots can be a PITA, they often go out the the shelf though on the west coast anyway, can mean a long detour to get away from them
