This was Brae voe, North mainland of Shetland Islands

Sorry, no sound with this film, i did overlay some music on one but prefer to just leave it as it is.

The seal and her pup which the orcas were hunting managed to escape onto the sandy beach, you can see them hauled out at 1min 30 sec .

@@towingwizzard1 yeah and if you look good, you can even see them coming out of the water at 0:45

The males are called bull orcas badass

@@GregAlcorn Yes I’m aware.

So much we don't know about these amazing animals, like why they are unlikely to attack humans in the water, Personably i would rather be out of the water than in if they were around

Orcas are picky eaters and learn from family what is good food. * Humans are not FAT enough to make it worth their while to hunt them and the interactions are so rare that humans were never a reliable source of food anyway, so the knowledge to eat them was never passed on a. A seal or hering has a lot of fat and they exist in large numbers in some place. Some Orca pods hunt other whales (or dolphins). Which also have some fat as insulation. Some pods of Orcas have learned how to kill Big Whites and they were observed how they ate the liver of the shark they had made short work of - but left everything else behind and swam on. So that liver might be a delicacy. In California researchers found that Big Whites leave an area when a pod of Orcas only came through - sometimes for as long as one year. (Some) Orcas seem to love the taste of squid, a pod that is living off the coast of New Zealand (year round) that are specialized in hunting those squids, and those squids are not easy to hunt - the researcher said she thinks to them it might be like chocolat for us because they go through a lot of trouble to get them. Usually the young learn from the experienced pod members what is suited for food and how to hunt it, they do not easily adapt to other food even if they are starving, and in the wild do not even try (normally - I guess there are "inventions" from time to time that are passed on through the generations if they are nutritious or taste good). For instance there are Orcas that swim in the regions of Norway in winter to feast on the fattened up hering - but there they leave the seals alone. These Orcas may never eat seals - or it is not worth their time _at this time and place_, with the abundance of fat fish, that they can herd in and eat in a frenzy. There are wandering and stationary pods of Orcas, the nomads may have a more varied diet (and range of acceptable food) as the travel the seas. * In the waterparks they had real trouble to feed Orcas when they started to capture them to show them in waterparks (I think that started in the 1950s or 1960s, and they had zero experience how to keep the animals). The stressed out animals refused food in the first weeks and did not accept "dead meat". I think the parks got fish (frozen) and thawed them and that finally did the trick.

@@franziskani informative response, thank you. There have been examples of Orcas ramming small boats off Galicia in recent times. I believe these were juvenile males and it might have been an example of experimental play of the sort that could lead to adoption of new food sources. Obviously this wasn't the outcome in this case, but it was still an example of behaviour threatening to humans.

Thank you for your comment, Did you know there is a webcam on the eshaness light house , streams 24/7, find it on shetland web cams. nice to have a look when the weather is wild.

@@towingwizzard1 I did not know that. Thank you!

yes, filmed with a drone, the camera is gyro/computer stabilised to keep it steady

@@towingwizzard1 Beautiful, incredible.

Most likely

press play.

You need to view on a decent size screen to see the seal, laptop size or bigger.

@@towingwizzard1 i can see it (seal) on my phone. 👍👍

Hey bud, now have a boat with a bathing platform on the stern, all good for the seal escape should we be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time again.

Hi Jenna, Fairly sure the seal survived as we saw no sign of a killing taking place. We tried to coax the seal into a fish basket but it was as scared of us as it was of the orcas, even grabbed it by the back flipper to lift it aboard but it was going to bite (understandably) have never thought about fitting a boarding arrangement for seals as this was the first time a seal has tried to board, might look into carrying a scramble net that could be used to scoop animals in trouble as we use a similar arrangement on the boat i work on for assisting to recover people from the water. But the fact is they doo eat seals, birds and other cetaceians , same as Tigers eat antelope for example. kind regards Viv