While fishing for footage in Barkley Sound, Canada, Peter Mieras accidentally dropped his camera into the ocean. To his surprise, the camera captured a remarkable feeding frenzy involving a humpback whale, sea lions, and a swarm of fish.
But that’s what happened to Peter Mieras as he was fishing for a good shot in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada and it sank into 30 feet of water.But as he stood there pondering whether to dive in after his action sports camera, something stirred in front of him.
“ a little bit like a National Geographic moment,” Mieras says. Just after it happened, a flock of birds and a few sea lions began attacking a bait ball, prompting him to grab another camera to film the action. The action attracted a far larger animal: a humpback whale which appeared just feet away from where Mieras and his wife Kathy were standing. The pair watched for two hours as a feeding frenzy took place in front of them. Afterward, Mieras was able to retrieve his camera and was stunned by what he saw.
The footage shows the bait ball blocking out the Sun above as a humpback whale charges at it, sending the fish scattering. Later, sea lions and the humpback can be seen hunting for fish.. “We just watched it over and over again because we just couldn’t believe what we were seeing.”, Mieras describes it as a “very lucky capture of some whale action underwater just below our dock.”
“I dropped the Insta360 X4 off the dock at 30 feet deep and just let it run,” says Mieras. “It ran for one hour and 45 minutes and after a while, all the underwater life showed up.”
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