{"id":297588,"date":"2026-02-14T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:31:12","slug":"oman-warns-against-diving-near-orca-whales-to-film-them-after-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297588\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman warns against diving near Orca whales to film them after viral video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dropcap\">The environmental authority in Oman has issued an advisory, urging people to avoid unsafe behaviour near marine wildlife. <\/p>\n<p>A video of a man diving near an orca to film it has been making the rounds online. The authority said that such an act &#8220;is incorrect and poses a serious risk to personal safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It added: &#8220;The orca whale is a powerful marine animal with a wild nature. It is not trained, and its behaviour cannot be predicted. It may act aggressively if it feels threatened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also urged the public to limit viewing to from a boat or from a safe distance, and to refrain from diving or approaching marine creatures, in order to protect lives and respect wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6ef4ba6c_c6ce_44d9_b302_25fd509506ce.jpeg\" alt=\"Meher Dhanjal\" height=\"124\" width=\"124\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The environmental authority in Oman has issued an advisory, urging people to avoid unsafe behaviour near marine wildlife.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,7808,82,263],"class_list":["post-297588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-oman","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}