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There are very few incidents of documented whale/human encounters that I
have been able to find.  I did some pretty extensive searching a few years
back on this subject after I had a diver get nudged by an Orca in Puget
Sound on a night dive by a resident whale.  

From practical experience, it seems that most of the Orca whales could care
less about divers in the water.  The whale in question was a smaller male &
possibly was just having a little fun.

I would not cancel a dive just because Orca whales were in the general area.
However, after the "whale bumping" incident, I would not jump in the water
in front of one either.  

Last time I checked, I could not find a single whale that had read an Orca
whale behavioral rules pamphlet.  It could be that some of them just don't
know what the rules are supposed to be.
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