Chaos Underwater Ensued as 70 Orcas Attacked and Killed Lone Blue Whale

(Photo : Elianne Dipp)
The orcas were biting the jaw of the blue whale, trying to get hold of its tongue. In a struggle for about an hour, as many as 70 killer whales tracked down and killed a blue whale off the southwestern coast of Australia, according to a marine biologist who witnessed the "astonishing, a bit of disturbing and actually mind-blowing" incident occur.
(Photo : Silvana Palacios)
Whale Watching 
Initially, it appeared like a usual day of whale watching, Kristy Brown, a marine biologist with Naturaliste Charters, a company that owned whale-watching tours located in Western Australia revealed. Brown wrote in a blog post of March 16 that the vessel occurred upon two pods of orcas in Bremer Bay Canyon, around 45 kilometers (28 miles) away from the coast, that was "playing and surfing the waves." 

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