A wildlife photographer captured dramatic video of a pod of orcas hunting a seal that survived by jumping on the back of her boat.

Charvet Drucker was out on a whale-watching trip in waters off Camano Island in Washington earlier this month when she spotted the pod of at least eight killer whales swimming and slapping their tails.

Drucker used the zoom lens on her camera to spot a harbour seal that was trying to flee from the pod. One of her shots showed the seal flying through the air above the scrum of orcas frothing the water, and she assumed she was witnessing the seal’s last moments alive.

But as the orcas got closer to her boat, Drucker realized that the pod was still searching for the seal.

In line with wildlife boating regulations, they had to cut the engine to prevent any

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