That's brilliant mate!

Very cool - I was super fortunate to see (most likely) this same pod chasing stingrays and even managed to get a few half decent shots! I put them up here on the forum somewhere??

Incredible animals - fortunately they haven't taken on the behaviour of their European counterparts off Spain and Portugal that attack water craft. They are responsible for a few sinkings of vessels.

That's amazing Smudge - great experience I'm sure.

I don't think they will take it further as every interaction with Orca pods has been hassle free around the world except for the European ones.

Behavioural scientists are not not entirely sure if it's an act of aggression or one of playfulness.

Theories say that the matriarch was hit by a sail craft and associated it with danger which was then 'taught' to the rest of the pod. Another mob of scholars suggest that playful males chase the sail boats closely underwater and one inadvertantly managed to ram into the aft of the vessel and dislodge something. This was like a game of cat and mouse and that the Orca got his fun by catching this piece that fell off.

Personally, sounds like bollocks but what would I know.

They are beautiful creatures.

Alan