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April 2023    Download the Entire Issue (PDF) Vol. 49, No. 4   RSS Feed for Undercurrent Issues
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Should Divers Fear an Orca?

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After we wrote in our March email that a pair of South African orcas had attacked 17 sharks to eat their livers, we received a query from reader Chuck Wilson, of Lincoln, Nebraska.

"Orcas are fascinating creatures, certainly beautiful and smart. They are voracious predators, attacking even great white sharks. My question is, are there any recorded orca attacks on scuba divers?"

Aside from captive orcas who have attacked people (can't say we blame them), we've never heard of an orca attacking a diver, and a web search came up with no instances of orcas in the wild killing humans....


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