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unusual facts about Orca


Orca-class patrol vessel

Two of the craft were temporarily fitted with .50-cal machine guns for port security during Op PODIUM the Canadian Forces' support of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.


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Clipper Navigation

Gray and orca whale watching is still available with the Victoria Clipper out of Seattle.

The service between Seattle and Friday Harbor provides orca and gray whale watching out of that port and has been in operation since 1991 daily from mid-May through September.

Eight Below

Max finds his way back to where McClaren fell into the ice earlier and spots a dead Orca.

Erebus Ice Tongue

Video also depicted other Weddell seals that appeared to use the underwater caves as hiding places from predators such as the orca (or killer whale) and the leopard seal.

Hoshi wo Miru Hito

Orcas do not wish to co-exist peacefully with humans and would prefer to have the planet all to themselves; similar to the apes in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes.

Insight – ICT for the differently abled

The training programme makes use of Orca (an assistive technology for the visually challenged), Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux based operating systems.

Killer whale attacks on humans

It is unclear which orca initiated the assault but rumored to be Tilikum based on the interviews done for the documentary Blackfish.

Moby Doll

Moby Doll was harpooned and shot at by Burich but did not die and the aquarium director decided to tow the orca back to Vancouver and put him on display.

Monster Shark

is a 1984 Italian natural horror film, and one of several environmental disaster films to emerge following the success of the 1975 film Jaws, including films such as: Great White, Orca, Piranha, Tentacles and Tintorera.

Orbea

Samuel Sánchez rode an Orbea Orca Carbon to win the road race at the Beijing Olympics and Julien Absalon won the mountain bike gold on an Orbea Alma.

ORCA card

An Autoload automatically adds transportation products to an ORCA card on a regular basis using a Visa or MasterCard.

Orca wetsuits and sports apparel

Orca sponsors a number of leading triathletes, including recently retired Olympic champion Hamish Carter, ITU athletes including Kris Gemmell, Courtenay Atkinson, Tim Don and Debbie Tanner, and Ironman competitors including Craig Alexander and Cameron Brown.

Oregon Coast Aquarium

The aquarium was home to Keiko, the orca who starred in the movie Free Willy, from January 1996 until September 9, 1998, when he was shipped to Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland.

Out To Swim

In 2010, London Orca won a gold medal at the Gay Games held in Cologne.

Steinar Bastesen

In 1998, Bastesen made a famous statement saying that the whale Keiko, known from the Free Willy films, should be killed and the meat sent to Africa as foreign aid.

Whangarei Harbour

Southern Right Whales used to gather in the harbour historically, but today small cetaceans such as dolphins and Orca, the Killer Whales can be observed in the harbour.


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