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That ice fisherman vid is obviously CGI to anyone who's seen an orca. I think that was part of an ad, wasn't it?

"Native" as in your ancestors were in Colorado before Europeans came?:confused:

Guns are made to kill. I would like to hear any better uses you have for them. I would also like to point out that the United States has the sixth highest murder rate in the world, and I can guess why after reading some of these posts (by two particular posters).

Congratulations on teaching your son to kill. I wish my parents had gotten me that Uzi I always asked for...[SARCASM]:rolleyes:

I don't want anyone here to get the impression that I saw this happening with my own eyes, let alone photographed it. Sorry! The photos I got from here: http://www.jimcline.com/wondersbaja2005/leaping%20ray.htm

So it was in the USA?

I'm almost surprised they didn't digitally add in a cloud of blood or something.

I see. I'm comfortable in the water, except maybe for the huge BCD that's slides around and the tank that hits my head all the time. I did well in the OW and in Peak Performance Buoyancy; maybe I was just frustrated that this is like "buying the certification" or something. But I've already told...

I'm doing my AOW course with PADI this October holiday almost right after having completed my OW last month. My parents organized this with our instructor and I really wish we could dive a bit more before doing this. Am I overreacting? Should I only worry about this when considering Rescue Diver?

I hate that music! It's like Jaws or something. In fact, both the music and the narrator sound like in this other video of a captive orca jumping onto his/her trainer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFQv1pfbp0 The guy calls the whales "beasts" and sensationalizes the wholes thing to make the...

How do they do that? I never had the impression that they could swim fast enough to clear the surface.

Pinnipeds (the superfamily which includes sea lions) are part of the order carnivora, as well as bears, canines and felines. So, imagine punching a bear, wolf or tiger in the face. :rofl3:

Well, make sure they want to be petted before you do it. I wonder if another one had been making threatening gestures before? If one had, that woman was probably attacked agressively. But, if there had been no threatening dislplays, the whale was probably just playing with her. Bottlenose...

:11: Makes you want to stick to looking at them from the boat.

More news. Shortly after Iceland openly defied the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling (before they were just whaling for "research") this month, they killed their first endangered fin whale. Iceland, Japan and Norway are not only members of the IWC but are also member nations of CITES...

Dolphins are whales! They're toothed whales; they just aren't as big as the species we tend to call "whales" (e.g. sperm whales, beaked whales, etc). It really bugs me how some people call whaling, sealing and dolphin hunting a "harvest". That's making marine mammals sound like corn or bananas...

They don't migrate TO those places, they're passing by Japan to go further north. The boats go OUT and herd the dolphins and small whales into the bays. The species targeted include Dall's porpoises, Risso's dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, short-finned pilot whales, striped dolphins, spotted...

I still don't find 20,000 dolphin deaths a year sustainable. The same number already die as bycatch in tuna nets, and they have to cope with this as well? Those dolphins and small whales are migrating from somewhere, so you don't only see less of them in Japan, but also in other countries...

In Japan, cetaceans that are not "great whales" don't fall under the juristiction of the International Whaling Commision. The "great whales" do fall under the juristiction of the IWC, but they still die in the hundreds for "scientific research" (even endangered species are "researched")...

No, but I've only lived in Austria since 2001. I'm Californian and I've read most of what there is written about cetaceans, because they're my life!