Screw the Orcas, it's those goddamn giant-ass whale-eating squid that scare
the crap out of me.

  Jim
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> From: Brett Peck <brettp@MI*.co*>
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:15:39 -0700
> To: "'techdiver@aquanaut.com'" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Subject: RE:Orcas
> 
> 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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