Is this loosely based on a True Story?
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Who99 — 20 years ago(April 17, 2005 09:33 PM)
I heard this movie is loosely based on a true story.
From what little I have heard(a long time ago), the true story revolves around a small fishing community in Eastern Canada. Apparently a whale was killed, just like in the movie, in an attempt to capture it for an aquarium. Afterwards its mate hung about the cove and would attack any boat that came out to fish.
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mrjjmac22-1 — 20 years ago(July 26, 2005 08:58 AM)
No Killer Whale has ever Inentionally attacked a Human.They are too intelligent to make a mistaken identity attack.The most major thing commited by a Killer Whale was capsizing a few small dinghys when Surfacing.
If you were going to be stranded in the middle of the ocean this is the one thing you would want around.It will not harm you and no predators will be close.Great Whites wont even attack one of these unless they are half dead/wounded. -
wallacesawyer — 20 years ago(September 09, 2005 06:02 PM)
I remember I think it was Entertainment Tonight, some dolphines were attacking a killer whale. I'm not sure why. I never saw any update on it.
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wallacesawyer — 20 years ago(December 21, 2005 06:41 PM)
Sounds more like the opposite. Killer whales are really oversized dolphins.
I think it was ONE killer whale, and a school of dophins.
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deepmoss — 20 years ago(December 21, 2005 10:17 PM)
Yes two orcas killed a female aquarium worker in Victoria BC. The news report said they kept her under water and she drowned.
Orcas in Antarctica have also mistaken people on icefloes for either penguins or seals and have tried to catch them by breaking the ice where the people were standing.
Dougal Robertson and his family had their boat sunk by Orcas off the west coast of South America , Dougal wrote about it http://www.survivethesavagesea.com/index.html -
ginger2055 — 20 years ago(February 09, 2006 05:16 PM)
Orcas have attacked people when they were abused by them or another trainer and was mistaken. Orcas might attack a few boats but if they do its most likely because they smell fish or blood. Orcas can kill any animal when they are in their pod.
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schlechtj — 19 years ago(December 16, 2006 05:44 PM)
This is the way Orcas kill baby dolphins. They work together to keep the baby from surfacing and it dies. A lot of the time they don't eat it afterward it's as if they are just amused with their own power. They are like humans. They are the absolute masters of their domain and they know it. An Orca if it gets a good look at you has a pretty good idea what you are and may provide it with some mental stimulation but, in the water you are as defenseless against an orca as if an orca was on land. If it is really hungry, or psycho, it will kill you.
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lm362 — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 03:21 AM)
"This is the way Orcas kill baby dolphins. They work together to keep the baby from surfacing and it dies. A lot of the time they don't eat it afterward it's as if they are just amused with their own power."
As someone has already said, please do research before you post anything. The reason orcas kill baby dolphins without eating them, sometimes, is to teach their young how to hunt and kill. They are not amused with their own power. You are humanizing orcas.
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bigbadbass3 — 19 years ago(December 10, 2006 09:54 PM)
HA! You should really do some research before you go posting things that absurd. Orcas are intelligent mammals that protect there young fiercly, have a sense of community and have NEVER killed a human in the wild, at least not in some toothy, Jaws-like attack. Yes, accidents happen, but think about it. Almost any large predator will kill a human if provoked or starved. Orcas, however, as pointed out in other posts, are too intelligent for that sort of nonsense.
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glenheron — 19 years ago(January 05, 2007 01:02 PM)
yea right go to youtube.com and look up killer whale attacks 0.0
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toph1980 — 19 years ago(March 19, 2007 03:35 AM)
I dunno what happened here but +100 stitches is a lot of stitches. Shamu is clearly annoyed with that chick, and refuses to let her get out of the water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqhKwG83TY
Bad Shamu!