Eight-Ton Orca Leaps 15ft Into The Air To Finally Capture Dolphin He Wanted For Dinner After Two-Hour Chase

• • Biosphoto/Christopher Swann

• The dolphin was originally part of a small group swimming off the Mexican coast
• But the others managed to get away – leaving it at the mercy of a whole pod of whales

Daily Mail

By Emine Sinmaz

PUBLISHED:17:14 EST, 24 July 2013| UPDATED:01:49 EST, 25 July 2013

With the setting sun just beginning to turn the sky pink, a killer whale leaps out of the ocean and soars into the air, spray cascading down in its wake.

It is a magnificent image. Except the whale’s dive has a purpose – the dolphin quivering 15ft below.

These astonishing photographs record the final act of a chase that lasted two hours, and ended with the dolphin trapped in the jaws of the eight-ton orca.

The dolphin was originally part of a small group swimming off the Mexican coast but the others managed to get away, leaving it at the mercy of a whole pod of whales.

Photographer Christopher Swann, who captured the extraordinary scene, said: ‘The killer whales tore round at full speed for two hours.

‘We never knew where to look because they erupted out of the water in one place, disappeared in a thrashing of foam and reappeared in a totally new location.

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