The
award-winning filmmaker and owner of Captain
Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari appeared on "The Early Show" Friday
with his wife Giselle Anderson and their daughter, Ariel,
to talk about seeing the killer whale hunt in-person.
Dave and his family were preparing for a trip to Yosemite
National Park when Dave got a call from one of his boat captains
about the hunt in progress. said, "We've been doing
year-round whale watching for about 15 years and we have
daily trips out
there. ... But I have never seen anything like that this
pod of killer whales. It was just incredible."
He explained eight killer whales were attacking the sea lion
and throwing it around.
"It was something I've never seen before all the years
I've been out on the water," he said. "And the
whales actually came over to our body and they were sticking
their
heads out of the water looking at us. One of them even came
right over to the window, and everybody got to see it. People
screamed on the boat. The whale's eyes were looking right
at the people. So instead of whale watching, it was people
watching."
Gisele called the
experience a "blessing."
"For me as a mom and for us as just people who love to
take people out to see these animals, to see them doing something
in the wild that I've never even seen on Discovery -- actually
popping their heads up out of the water and vocalizing and
talking to one another was so exciting. We looked at each
other and went, 'Do you hear that?' It was really fun. And
just to
see some of the other behaviors that they exhibited was quite
an experience -- quite a blessing for us."
Arielle, who was
on the bow during the attack, called the experience "amazing."
"They were like seven or six feet away," she said. "...
They were putting on such a show."
To see live webcasts of Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari,
click here.
To see the whale attack and watch more of the Andersons' interview,
click on the video below.
