Orcas on "grocery trip" in Vancouver harbour

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This would not be a good time to fall overboard.

Orcas glide through Vancouver's False Creek
Video shared on social media shows the orcas cruising past highrise towers at the entrance to False Creek.
(Can't link to video separately so you'll have to go to the article)

Screen shot from the little ferry. They're longer than the ferry, which is only 20'. A friend of mine used to pilot those little ferries in the harbour. It's a nice trip in good weather.

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The captain of the ferry, Jack Hemsworth said the passengers on board were stunned as the orcas' dorsal fins cut through the surface. He put the engine into neutral as the orcas glided by.

Andrew Trites, director of the University of British Columbia's marine mammal research unit ...said it's the first time the 26-year-old mother orca, known as T35A, has shown up in downtown Vancouver with her offspring, ages six, 11 and 14.

...the well documented family has previously been seen by marine researchers from Alaska to the Juan de Fuca Strait south of Vancouver Island...
 

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Some people call them "Killer Whales". They leave part out when they do so. They are really killers of whales. A pod will find a whale and jump on his blow hole not allowing it to breath. Then it comes up again and another one des it until the whale suffocates. Everything has to eat but they are mean little buggers.
 
They're carnivores! They kill to eat. Watch the videos of Orca forcing seals off icebergs into the mouths of their pod. They're smart and ruthless. Like a pack of wolves, they cooperate to feed the pod.
 
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