Sea lion chases down speeding boat... Wow!

[tk2kewl]

http://thechive.com/2014/11/07/sea-lion-chases-down-a-speeding-boat-to-collect-whats-his-video/

[AtomicKitten]

1. Amazing!

thanks for posting

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. OMG! I didn't know they could swim so fast.

And how did the sea lion know there were fish on that boat?

[tk2kewl]

3. maybe he could smell the fish

[denbot]

6. When I was a young man I commercial fished.

Sealions would follow our boats and wait till we hooked one, then strip it off our lines. It killed me because the sealions would surface after grabbing the salmon, snapp it's head back and fling all but the belly over it's head. It was explained to me that the belly was where all the calories in a salmon were, and that was what the sealion preferred.

As for me, all I saw was $100+ of a crews share sink to the bottom every time that happened.

[frogmarch]

4. So long, and

thanks for all the fish!

:-D

[denbot]

5. Not swimming, he was surfing.

Not to down play the animals ability, but he was mostly surfing the boats wake. Now catching up to the boat to do that was pretty amazing.