so a killer whale will take down a great white shark? yeah, they would flip it over on the back and just eat the liver. oh my days. what i am trying to get my head around again is, if we see the apex predator of the sea, i m going to have to get in the water with them? they are not aggressive to people. you will see that it will check you out. i can show you a video. what have we got? oh wow, that is so beautiful. is that here? that was here. it was a juvenile, and very curious with a snorkeller. just playing? completely. how close. wow!
what have we got? oh wow, that is so beautiful. is that here? that was here. it was a juvenile, and very curious with a snorkeller. just playing? completely. how close. wow! that was two metres maximum. just two metres away from a juvenile orca that was just having fun. and enjoying, yeah. and it looks so beautiful. to be sure of seeing the orcas, we were here more than a week after they arrived in the area the year before. we are on orca watch. julie s got some friends who are out in boats and they are looking for them.
was disappointing. julie told me they eventually arrived on the fjord two weeks later. it s hard to say for sure whether these shifting patterns are down to climate change. but with warmer temperatures affecting all manner of wildlife from seals to seabirds, from walruses to other species of whale, it s making its effects known across the entire ecosystem. and for more of my round the world trip tracking the impact of these changes, you can catch up with climate change: ade on the frontline, on bbc two this month, and the iplayer. that was an amazing trip, even if we didn t get to see any orcas. well, that s all we ve got time for, butjoin us next week when we take a look back at some of our all time
here s how i got on. i had come here to seglvik, on norway s northern coast, which lies in the arctic circle. 2020 was one of the hottest years on record, with the highest amounts of c02 in the atmosphere ever reported, and that s despite a year of lockdowns which kept a lot of us at home. the arctic also saw record temperatures. it s heating up around twice as fast as the rest of the world, which is having an unpredictable impact on the area s wildlife. including the animal that draws travellers like me to this remote part of scandinavia. the orca, or killer whale. i d been told northern norway is one of the best places to see them in the wild. and i wanted to swim with one, which in arctic waters, meant getting kitted out in a very thick wetsuit. i m going to pour hot water in it, and soap, and try to slide you in.
part of scandinavia. the orca, or killer whale. i d been told northern norway is one of the best places to see them in the wild. and i wanted to swim with one, which in arctic waters, meant getting kitted out in a very thick wetsuit. i m going to pour hot water in it, and soap, and try to slide you in. so let me run through this, what can i say.this process. so, ten millimetre suit, you are lubricating it up with some hot water and washing up liquid. oh my days, this is madness, i hope my mum is not watching this. it might be a little bit cold. yeah, that s cold. 0oh! i see what you mean. iwill stand up. may i?