was this TB ...?
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12142734

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bazz61 said..
was this TB ...?
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12142734

No it wasn't TB It is one of TB's and Gizzies friends Haven't spoken to him since it happened

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towball said..

bazz61 said..
was this TB ...?
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12142734

No it wasn't TB It is one of TB's and Gizzies friends Haven't spoken to him since it happened

Was the board damaged?

To an Orca a wetsuited surfer might look like a seal for sure..best to stay with the board as it might not taste as nice a flesh

The Orca's

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surfbroker said..
To an Orca a wetsuited surfer might look like a seal for sure..best to stay with the board as it might not taste as nice a flesh

The Orca's that we have around here mostly hunt rays (including those on wooden boards) they quite often herd them into shallow water, they come through raglan about once a year scare most of the tourists out of the water and for about 30 mins you get the points with just the locals and Orca's surfing it.

The orca was keeping itself between the person and the four metre great white that went unseen.....
It was trying to help

The orca paddled through the middle of the short boarders........avoided scary looking sup people......and picked on a long boarder. What was it trying to say ?

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GizzieNZ said..
The orca paddled through the middle of the short boarders........avoided scary looking sup people......and picked on a long boarder. What was it trying to say ?

It wanted a challenge

the long boarder guy Martin said it was a juvenile......he said it wanted some parental supervision

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GizzieNZ said..
the long boarder guy Martin said it was a juvenile......he said it wanted some parental supervision

Haha that's funny mate

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Macaha said..

GizzieNZ said..
the long boarder guy Martin said it was a juvenile......he said it wanted some parental supervision

Haha that's funny mate

Martin is the one person more qualified to comment ,after being a fisheries officer for 35 odd years . Orca did manege to find a father figure . The board is a 12ft Toughlite Mickey Munoz .

Listened to interview with the NZ orca expert.. on radio station. She says is nz orca population. ....but occasionally there are visits from "pelagic ocean going" orca ?