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To: Mpatl
Back in July, I was salmon fishing out of Juneau and we had a similar experience when an orca breached right next to our boat. Holy you know what. An amazing sight. They are the ocean’s apex predator and eat great white sharks for lunch.

I can only imagine. Do you have pics? If so, I hope you will post.

You mean to say these guys eat meat? I thought the prior posts were joking about that. I was hoping that these might make a good pet. I have a big bath tub. Say it isn't so. :-)

22 posted on 09/18/2012 2:48:27 PM PDT by jwsea55
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To: jwsea55

No photos. It happened so quickly and was such an amazing sight. I did manage to film his next breach which was about 250 hundred yards from our boat, but you can barely tell on my smartphone. You really have to be looking for it. There was a lot of nervous laughter, and I recall stealing the line from Jaws, “I think we are going to need a bigger boat.” Even the seasoned captain, said that what happened is very rare and she had been fishing these waters for two decades.


23 posted on 09/19/2012 7:11:48 AM PDT by Mpatl
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To: jwsea55

They live on meat. Primarily salmon, but they need a whole bunch daily to sustain themselves. They are extremely smart and hunt and live in pods. They teach each other and our truly incredible creatures. I learned a lot about them on my trip. You can google killer whale vs. great white and find some unreal footage by a marine biologist off of Northern California.


24 posted on 09/19/2012 7:15:40 AM PDT by Mpatl
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To: jwsea55
"You mean to say these guys eat meat?"

Are you kidding?

26 posted on 09/19/2012 12:38:19 PM PDT by Osage Orange ( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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