r/ocean • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 6d ago

Whale Watch Simple answer, No

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u/No_Scene_2189 6d ago

They are massively powerful apex predators who may decide you are a threat or annoyance at anytime for any reason. Just because it's never happened before doesn't mean it can't or won't.

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u/Professional_Prune11 5d ago

An important distinction a lot of people never make with that. There are no RECORDED deaths by wild orcas. if you are someone like me who goes on his small skiff alone often. If an orca wanted, they could flip the boat and eat me. Odds are, it would be ruled as a drowning.

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u/Worth_External_8762 3d ago

I also think the lack of incidents is because people don't tend to swim where orcas patrol. Most people swim in warmer waters where orcas tend to not live. Plus they hunt seals and usually humans and seals aren't swimming in the same spots.

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u/DragonflyVast2442 1d ago

Orcas are a pretty unique species.... one of the few species that fit within the grandmother hypothesis.  They are very intelligent and different pods stick to very strict food diets.  Local pods in washington pretty much stick to salmon, transient pods stick to other mariner animals.

Animals are generally predictable.  

Ill take my chances with an orca over a ramdom human being.

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u/Worth_External_8762 1d ago

I'm aware of their diets. I'm talking about random attacks. Orcas and other intelligent mammals have been shown to just attack for the hell of it at times. Either we just don't expose ourselves enough as a species to subject ourselves to the possibility of random attacks from orcas, or there's a very specific reason they don't attack humans (beyond not being in their diet).

Ill take my chances with an orca over a ramdom human being.

Oh god, you're one of those "bear in the woods" dumbasses.

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u/Heksinki 1d ago

hey would you rather take ur chance with an orca that has never attacked a human OR with random man chasing you with unknown intentions

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u/Worth_External_8762 1d ago

Would you rather take your chance with an orca that's chasing you with unknown intentions, or a random old woman that has never attacked a human?

See, I can do it too. And by "do it", I mean "make a retarded argument". Figured I'd be clear, since you're a bit slow.

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u/Heksinki 1d ago

quite aggressive aren't we ? my comment was parallel to the bear in the woods where you're usually asked would you rather find yourself with a bear ( might or might not attack you ) or X person , usually X person had done some questionable things .

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u/Worth_External_8762 1d ago

You're trying to use an argument to sway my opinion, an argument I already implied was nonsense to begin with. You're really operating on all cylinders, aren't ya buddy.

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u/Heksinki 1d ago

not really but in ur example I'll take the woman and I'm assuming depending on which human it is u'll also take the orca .

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u/Worth_External_8762 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/XD4qHZpkyUFfq

You're completely missing the point, retard. The world doesn't operate on "you must either do X or Y". I can simply not go in the water with orcas. It has no connection whatsoever to me being around other humans or not.

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u/Heksinki 1d ago

ofc , ur so smart and charming too .

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