WATCH: Killer Whale Brutally Whips a Sea Lion with its Tail in California
As surfers, we're humbled by submerging ourselves into the homes of wild animals and succumbing our fate to Mother Nature. And nature, as we've seen, is mental.
Sure, there's some warm and fuzzy stuff too, like mother whales and their calves, dolphins harmoniously sharing waves with surfers, and surfers helping sea lions.
Then there's the other stuff, like whales body slamming foil surfers, sea lions ripping out shark's throats, seals that attack great whites, and even swans harassing wakeboarders. Not feeling very Disney now, are we? Except of course, the baby humpback lost without it's mom in Hawaii. But I digress.
Today's episode of reality sea life TV above comes from the Instagram user known as jordan.looking.at.stuff who posted the clip two weeks ago, captioning it:
"If you know me, you know I have quite the soft spot in my heart for sea lions.
"It was quite emotional to watch these guys literally fight for their lives as they took refuge under and around our boat. As so it goes in nature.
"Taken onboard @pacificoffshore"
In the video above, a few boats are gathered in the ocean, presumably doing tours. People are hanging out aboard, armed with phones out and ready to go.
A sea lion appears to be lazing about on the left side of the screen, and suddenly, bam! A killer whale goes swimming by and hits the sea lion like a bullseye.
By all appearances, it was intentional considering right after the whale hits its target, it goes back to swimming normally.
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