Hi Brad, The incident you described can and does indeed happen. It is not uncommon for Orca's in the Patagonian water of South American to come up on shore, as you described to grab their prey. There has only once been a report of a Orca harming a human, and that was at Sea World. I just returned from a trip to Bodo, Norway, where we were in the water with hundreds of Orca's during their feeding on herring. It was an incredible experience. The Orca's paid no attention to us during the feeding. When we were in the water with them at other times, they became very curious about us. When we would make noises thru our snokels, they would come with 10 feet of us and just look us in the eye. There are two different types of pods of Orca's, transit and resident. As many of us know they have been given the false name of Killer Whales--in fact they are not whales at all................. Just wanted to pass on my first hand experience with lists. On several days we kayaked along with them, at least when they would let us play with them. Barb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 02 1998 - 19:48:24 PST
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