00:00:06was it was a California gray whale cow
00:00:15the California gray whale is one of the
00:00:19largest animals on the planet a fully
00:00:21grown female known as a cow can easily
00:00:25weigh up to 35 tons the equivalent of
00:00:28eleven female African elephants the
00:00:35barnacle is encrusted on the upper
00:00:37surface of this creatures head
00:00:39positively identified it and then when
00:00:42we got a little closer somebody yelled I
00:00:44think it was Heidi that first realized
00:00:46that there were gray whales in the area
00:00:48which is what had attracted the killer
00:00:50whales gray whales and killer whales are
00:00:54not related orcas are in fact a type of
00:00:58dolphin they are known as killer whales
00:01:03not because there are ways but because
00:01:06their whale killers
00:01:13this was the attack that I never wanted
00:01:16to see
00:01:28one organization is specially equipped
00:01:31to reveal the dark mysteries of Monterey
00:01:34Bay marine biologist George Matsumoto
00:01:37had heard of killer whale attacks on
00:01:40gray whales but even he had never seen
00:01:43one even here at the research in super
00:01:46will spend 300 days a year on two
00:01:48different ships out there we’ve never
00:01:50actually observed a killer whale attack
00:01:52from our vessels up until now reports of
00:01:57Orca attacks with a stuff of legend
00:01:59rarely glimpsed even by those who
00:02:01studied these animals but the mother’s
00:02:05day encounter would provide scientists
00:02:07with detailed video
00:02:09most start to finish 10 and 15 18
00:02:15minutes after Theora and first sighted
00:02:17the illness
00:02:18she spotted another body in the water
00:02:25off the left side look over there in the
00:02:28midst of the May there was another
00:02:39and we are told by Heidi that there the
00:02:42orcas are attacking a great whale and
00:02:43baby whales have only one infant at a
00:02:54time judging by the size of this calf it
00:02:58was around 3 months old
00:03:01it was nothing anyone to do the
00:03:06passengers could only watch
00:03:09in fascination you don’t really want to
00:03:11watch but you have to because you want
00:03:14to know what’s going on
00:03:20truly this was one of the most powerful
00:03:23things any of us on board had ever seen
00:03:25and workers are so
00:03:32the killer whales were thrashing their
00:03:35tails at it
00:03:37killer whales were trying to prevent the
00:03:40calf from breathing trying to drop
00:03:53you
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