The people aboard a ferry in Vancouver were treated to a rare sight Sunday.
A pod of orcas swam right by the small vessel in False Creek, metres away from Sunset Beach.
The captain behind the wheel, Jack Hemsworth, says the boat was just past the Vancouver Aquatic Centre when he noticed three dorsal fins. The whales were within 10 feet of the ferry.
“It was pretty surreal,” he told CTV News. “It was pretty crazy just to see how big they really are – they were bigger than the boat.”
Hemsworth said he put the vessel into neutral for the creatures’ safety as the passengers, mostly tourists, experienced “all the emotions at once.”
In a video of the encounter posted to social media by False Creek Ferries, the onlookers can be heard gasping in awe. “What the f***?” one exclaims.
The passengers were pretty stoked because this never happens,” …