Close Encounter... Too Close For Comfort!

StarNewsOnline.com: The Voice of Southeastern North Carolina:

"Ellis Miller found himself face-to-face with an orca charging at him in 4 feet of water Saturday in Helm Bay. The animal, estimated to be more than 25 feet long, bumped but did not bite him.

'I looked underwater and there was this huge head right in front of me,' Ellis told the Ketchikan Daily News.

Biologists said whale may have been curious or it may have aborted an attack.

'If it had wanted to take him, it would have,' said Gary Freitag"

Wow, that must have been one bizarre encounter. What a close one too!

Gary