A breathtaking moment in the presence of the ocean\u2019s greatest predator \u2013 or was it?<\/p>\n
When I talk about being in the water surrounded by killer whales, I\u2019m often asked, \u201cWere you scared?\u201d or \u201cWhat if they changed their mind about the menu?\u201d<\/p>\n
I can honestly say that not only was I completely comfortable swimming with these magnificent creatures, but every pass and every moment of curious scrutiny filled me with such joy that even the icy cold of the Norwegian fjords felt warm in their presence.<\/p>\n
There are two significant subspecies of orca: Orcinus orca ater, or resident orca, and Orcinus orca rectipinnus, or Bigg\u2019s orca. Bigg\u2019s orca have become infamous for their brutal attacks on marine mammals and, to my mind, they truly are the ocean\u2019s greatest predators. Resident orca, on the other hand, live symbiotic lives with a single fish species \u2013 in this case, North Sea herring \u2013 and seem to enjoy far more complex and richer social lives than their brutish cousins.<\/p>\n
So whenever I\u2019m asked what it\u2019s like to swim with killer whales, I light up, beam a grin from ear to ear, and say, \u201cIt\u2019s something quite special, and I can\u2019t wait to do it all again.\u201d<\/p>\n
#Norway #Skjervoy #orca #fjords #travel #OrcinusOrcaAter #OrcinusAter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A breathtaking moment in the presence of the ocean\u2019s greatest predator \u2013 or was it? When I talk about being in the water surrounded by killer whales, I\u2019m often asked, \u201cWere you scared?\u201d or \u201cWhat if they changed their mind about the menu?\u201d I can honestly say that not only was I completely comfortable swimming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2391,2380,2386,3366,3374,2389,29],"class_list":["post-9741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fjords","tag-norway","tag-orca","tag-orcinusater","tag-orcinusorcaater","tag-skjervoy","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}