Seal Flops Onto Photographer’s Boat To Escape Hunting Orca Pod–She Captured It All On Camera

Seal Flops Onto Photographer’s Boat To Escape Hunting Orca Pod–She Captured It All On Camera

Seal Flops Onto Photographer’s Boat To Escape Hunting Orca Pod–She Captured It All On Camera Seal in Florida – Credit: Robert Woeger via Unsplash An experienced wildlife photographer with a penchant for marine mammals like whales recently bore witness to a lone seal miraculously surviving a hunt by 8 killer whales. Far more than just bearing witness, it was more or less the photographer’s presence that allowed for it to happen, as the seal escaped the jaws of the hunters by clambering up onto the boat. Shared with AP, Charvet Drucker told her story of the encounter that began last week on a whale-watching boat. About 40 miles northwest of Seattle in the Salish Sea, she spotted a pod of orcas, also called killer whales, and observed behavior that suggested they were hunting. Quickly attaching her telescopic lens, the orcas splashed into action, attempting to secure a meal out of an adult seal that was thrown into the air among the scrum of black and white bodies. Her shutter rang out in her…