Group Has Close Encounter With Shore-Skimming Orca Pod in BC

Group Has Close Encounter With Shore-Skimming Orca Pod in BC
A female resident orca in a file photo. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File
The Canadian Press
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QUADRA ISLAND—A pod of orcas surprised a group of friends visiting Quadra Island, British Columbia, last weekend, appearing metres from where they stood on the waterline of Moulds Bay.

The shore−skimming encounter prompted one marine mammal expert to warn that observers should not to get too close to such behaviour.