ORCA ATTACKS BOAT

An Alaska man said his boat was repeatedly rammed by a killer whale Sunday while he was fishing with his son and two other people. Victor Littlefield of Sitka said the killer whale struck the 33-foot aluminum boat numerous times, yanked its anchor line and slapped the boat’s bow with its tail. Littlefield initially thought the boat was being attacked by a great white shark. “I had just watched ‘Jaws’ the day before,” Littlefield said. But when he took a closer look, he saw the black and white whale. During the attack, Littlefield was terrified it would pull the boat under water when it kept twisting the anchor line around itself. But eventually, the whale swam away. No one was hurt and the boat suffered no damage. Littlefield’s black Labrador retriever, Roscoe, was lying on an ice box on the boat and Littlefield said he wondered if the whale was going after the dog.
* Well, I’ll say it. Yes. Yes, it was.
* A dog looks like a seal to a hungry killer whale.
* Unless this was whale foreplay.
* “This is for Shamu,” said the whale as it left, in whale-speak.