Orca Approach Entangled Humpback Whale

Did Orca Rescue this Humpback Whale? A question we were all wondering after todays incredible tour that witnessed for the first time an entangled Humpback Whale being targeted by Orca in Bremer Bay during the summer. Our morning started as usual when we arrived in The Patch as one of our Pod Members onboard spotted a male Orca behind us and we watched carefully for the next surfacing. A flash of white that was ten plus meters in length raced past one hundred meters ahead which seemed to be a possible Giant Squid below the waters surface as the male Orca erupted into a surge after the white shape. The sighting took a dramatic turn as the “squid” rolled back over and revealed a dorsal fin and fluke, it was a Humpback Whale who had been swimming upside down! A stunning moment as it took a few seconds to process that we had a young Humpback Whale swimming in waters just off Bremer Bay on the 10th of January… why wasn’t he feeding in Antarctica? Looking carefully we could see a possible reason why as the distinc