Bucit
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I've seen dolphins do this but Killer Whales?
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Holy crap. :wow: . :wow:
Gofirstclass
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Hmmmmm, I guess nobody told the people on the boat that those Orcas were hungry.
As cool as that video is, that act (motoring along with the Orcas that close) would cost you thousands of dollars in WA, and possibly the forfeiture of your boat. In San Juan county there is a sheriff's boat that is out on the water and his main job (when not saving boaters from harm) is to protect the Orcas. The area of safety around Orcas is about 1/2 mile. Inside of that area you're not allowed to have your engines running. They get real nasty about violators and the fines are huge.
As cool as that video is, that act (motoring along with the Orcas that close) would cost you thousands of dollars in WA, and possibly the forfeiture of your boat. In San Juan county there is a sheriff's boat that is out on the water and his main job (when not saving boaters from harm) is to protect the Orcas. The area of safety around Orcas is about 1/2 mile. Inside of that area you're not allowed to have your engines running. They get real nasty about violators and the fines are huge.
Tman
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Where was that video taken?
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Bob & Sue
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That's a video that's been around awhile. When we're around Orcas or any other whales we always kill the engine and float, we had a Gray whale surface near us a couple months ago, didn't get any pic's here's one from a couple years ago of J Pod.
Here's a link to the new NOAA WA law.
http://www.bewhalewise.org/new-regulations/
Pic of J pod off of Gig Harbor WA.
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In CA we are allowed to 100yards, and are not required to "disengage our transmission". We are required to slow to no-wake speed, and try to avoid impeding the whales natural movements (don't chase them, get in their path, feed them, etc.). I would bet there is some gray area on this video (even in WA) because the whales were clearly chasing the boat, and appeared to be playing in the wake(like dolphins). If the boat was just in route somewhere and the whales came to play, holding course and speed might be a more reasonable response than stopping in the middle of a pod of Orca's and hoping they got bored and went away before nightfall? At any rate they got an awesome video.
