{"id":302038,"date":"2025-11-19T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:59:07","slug":"watch-seal-jumps-onto-boat-to-escape-killer-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302038\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Seal jumps onto boat to escape killer whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Nov. 19 (UPI) — A group of amateur whale watchers off the coast of Washington’s Camano Island captured video when a seal jumped onto their boat to escape a pod of killer whales.<\/p>\n

Photographer Charvet Drucker captured video of the encounter Nov. 2 when she and her friends spotted the pod of orcas in the Saratoga Passage.\n<\/p>\n

“We were out on the boat watching some orcas, about 300-400 yards away from them when the hunt began,” Drucker wrote on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n

The group noticed the killer whales were engaging in predation behavior with a seal.<\/p>\n

Smith Siromaskul, another member of the whale watching party, said on Facebook<\/a> that the “pod had been using him as hunting practice and he’d been batted up out of the water more than once.”<\/p>\n

The group shut off the boat’s engine in case the animals came closer, and just over a half hour later the seal came even closer than expected — it jumped onto the boat.<\/p>\n

The whale watchers said the orcas circled the boat in search of the seal, but gave up and left after about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

The group eventually restarted the boat’s engine and headed back toward shore, with its semi-aquatic passenger still on deck.\n<\/p>\n

“Once we got closer to shore, the seal decided it felt safe enough to leave the boat and jumped off on its own accord,” Drucker wrote.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 19 (UPI) — A group of amateur whale watchers off the coast of Washington’s Camano Island captured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":["post-302038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}