Fascinating animals, about 15 years ago we were diving off a rock called Trenemene out on the western side of the Scillies, the skipper would position the boat about 25 yards off the rock and we would submerge and surface between him and the rock, it was a wall dive very sheer all the way down to 70 plus metres and covered in plumose anenomes.
During the dive we all heard a cacophony of whistles and clicks and presumed a pod of dolphins were present we hung around in the decompression stages waiting to catch a glimpse and maybe take a piccy or two but bugger all showed up despite the overwhelming noise, on getting back into the boat we were confronted with an excited skipper asking did we see the Orca! Apparently there were a pod playing around the boat and we didn’t see a bloody thing, He took pics to prove he wasn’t winding us up, one of life’s opportunities missed unfortunately
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