In World Aquatic News: A drone has captured video of a woman surrounded by orca as she was swimming off Hahei beach on the Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand. Judie Johnson said she was out for a swim by herself last week when she found herself with unexpected company. Three Orcas approached her, then followed her as she swam along the shore break.
Judie Johnson of Hahei, New Zealand, among Orcas. “I thought they were dolphins.
Then I realized they were Orcas.”
The swimmer said she looked directly into the adult orca’s huge eye.
Johnson said, “There was a shape that went under me, like a huge shape and I thought [it was] dolphins and I was quite excited, and then I saw the great white colour on the back.”
“It was so different to anything that’s happened to me before,” Johnson told the New Zealand-based 1 News Now. “I thought, no, this is a life-changing experience.”
Both Johnson and the orcas were unharmed.
While orca whales are carnivores — they feed on seals, sea lions and sometimes other whales, according to National Geographic — they don’t typically attack humans, and there have been no reported instances of a killer whale eating a human, according to Whale Facts.