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Related: About this forumAmazing video has emerged of an orca swimming underneath paddleboarder off the coast of New Zealand
An amazing video has emerged of an orca swimming underneath a paddleboarder off the coast of New Zealand on Monday. The once-in-a-lifetime footage, captured off Kuaotunu beach, shows the killer whale swimming right next to boarder Luke Reilly.
Interviewed by a local news organisation about the experience, Riley said: This one just bee-lined it for me. He popped up about 10cm away from the back of my board.
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Amazing video has emerged of an orca swimming underneath paddleboarder off the coast of New Zealand (Original Post)
kpete
May 2015
OP
Some clans of orcas only eat fish. Others eat mammals but even those never eat humans.
McCamy Taylor
May 2015
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djean111
(14,255 posts)1. Wow!!!!! Good thing the orca did not think that guy was a seal!!!!!! Amazing!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)2. It seemed like it took a closer look and then changed its mind.
Slightly off-topic: this is a classic example of why I think laughter evolved: to signal that the danger has passed and nobody has been harmed
Nay
(12,051 posts)3. Agreed! The orca surfaced to take a look, saw it was a human, and decided not to
eat the guy as if he were a seal.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)4. That is one lucky kid.
Could have gone native, very quickly.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)5. Some clans of orcas only eat fish. Others eat mammals but even those never eat humans.
I don't think we are orca "kosher."
Moostache
(9,895 posts)6. WOW! I love Orcas and have since I was a kid...even after that awful movie and Sea World...
They are the most amazing creatures on the Earth...intelligence and social frameworks to rival man before we discovered fire and so beautiful! That was simply an amazing encounter. Thanks for sharing the link!
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)7. Perhaps, he'll be able to rinse his pants from his paddle-board.