Tourists Watch in Horror as 60 Orcas Rip Apart Endangered Blue Whale

Every summer, an area of deep underwater canyons off western Australia’s south coast called Bremer Canyon becomes the preferred feeding ground for marine predators including sharks, pilot whales, beaked whales, and the highly intelligent orcas. As such, Bremer Canyon has become a popular whale-watching destination. This week, a pod of orcas put on a gruesome show. On Monday, tourists and researchers on a tour boat at Bremer Canyon witnessed a pod of over 60 orcas hunt and kill a roughly 59-foot-long (18-meter-long) pygmy blue whale, as reported by Australia’s ABC. The scene, caught on camera, was bloody, heartbreaking…and normal, despite our aching human hearts. In fact, it was also special, in a ruthless way: It’s only the fourth time orcas hunting a blue whale has been filmed at Bremer Canyon. “The intense ordeal lasted less than 40 minutes from when we first saw the blue at the surface to when the battle was over. As the blue whale’s fate was sealed, orcas celebrated with breaches ... Read full article.