A tour boat off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada were having the time of their lives on the calm water. Little did they know, they were about to witness a once-in-a-lifetime event.
One terrified seal, who couldn’t have been more than a year old, was being chased by 12 hungry orcas when he spotted the tour boat.
Thinking quickly, the seal jumped right onto the back of the boat to escape the pod of killer whales.
“We had four or five orcas all at once sitting at the back of the boat straight up and down sort of looking at the seal,” tour guide Nick Templeman said.
“They would dive and they would all disappear – about 12 of them – and you can see shape after shape trying to come up from under the boat,” he added. Templeman has been whale watching for 20 years, but this is the first time he’s seen such an extreme orca hunt.
“The seal did get scared during the encounter,” explained Templeman. “He would get in the water, swim back up and get back on the boat. This was not one family group but three or four family groups.”
Shit got Jaws-level scary when the whales started swimming dangerously close to the engine, where the little seal was hiding. Tourists on the boat were getting riled up by this time.
Luckily for the seal, after about a half an hour, the orcas gave up and disappeared.
