Seal hops on boat to avoid hungry orcas

One lucky seal narrowly avoided feeding time for a pod of orca whales by jumping aboard a boat off the coast of British Columbia.

Kirk Fraser was out whale watching with family when he captured an incredible moment on camera, a seal scrambling onto his boat to escape killer whales.

The seal jumped onto the boat and squeezed its way between the engines to avoid the jaws on the killer whales.

Fraser says they saw the seal’s head pop up above the water and initially thought it was injured. “All of a sudden it is between the engines with whales all around under the boat. Then the seal jumped on the boat. It was madness,” he said.

The seal fell off two times, but scrambled back on. Fraser said he was concerned the whales would nudge the boat.

The orcas circled the boat for about 30 minutes, leaving everyone on board soaked from the spray coming off of their blowholes. Once they gave up and left the area, the seal hopped off back in the water, but kept “hanging around the boat just in case,” Fraser said.