Diver Encounters Deadly, 13-Foot Leopard Seal | National Geographic 

Because they are cute, graceful, curious, etc; but they are also fierce and intelligent predators that dwarf most people in comparison

They got a cute face, but as soon as they look with their black eyes, and open their mouths, to like 90 degrees open, you start to see why they’re apex predators in their environment.

yeah maybe it's their teeth

That's every woman I know fam!

Not to me

Exactly

She lying lol😂

Lmfao 😂😂

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Lol

Yeah

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A dirt circle won't stop that thing! I'm running for my life!!

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Actually orcas and sharks prey on them.

Yep but it's not a kind seal. It's a very dangerous sea leopard. Frightening.

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@@mirzamirza7878 very frightening in its nature. Not to humans. Similar to the killer whale

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@@kerontucker4488 I'm sure an orca would take off with a human about 1000 feet and eat them if they were that hungry. Orcas are more dangerous than a majority of the sharks people fear. Great Whites fall prey to Orcas all the time. Orcas hunt like oceanic wolves. 🐺

LMAO 🤣

Lol 🤣😂😆😅😄🥰

That was seriously me. Like I still want to pet it which is weird but at the same time I’m terrified of it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Check out an orca

She forgot to add 100 grams to the 150 lb of her diving outfit: The Diaper! (The history says that after this event, she always use a diaper just in case of another an unexpected encounter)

what you have an orca?

Yeah, why not?

The Pleblian 2 Leopard Seals > 1 Orca

This post made my day lol 👍!

Someone plays too much ark

It doesn't need to, they can just rip you in half.

Good thing I don’t read books

It's absolute badassery.

Yup, especially as a diver was dragged to their death here by a leopard seal some years ago 😩

until the attack

Was not planned.

Exactly. That thing was not cute.

marcus24000 haha no it isn’t

marcus24000 if your house cat is 13 feet long and brutally kills penguins then I don’t think that’s a house cat

marcus24000 People do not solely rely on instinct. We have the cab ability to reason. These animal do not

marcus24000 think your confusing people with a person

lol

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@@PreacherLawson 😲

Wazzzgudd

always though those were scary since i watched it as a kid

Check out the movie Eight Below. That was the first time I'd heard of one.

Well that’s bc you identified with the humanized penguin that was all of a couple feet and was illustrated accordingly. So if you’re only a couple feet tall that 13 foot animal now looks 40 feet. And that’s a terrifying freaking monster

I remember watching that all the time as a kid those were scary

Same with the one in 8 below

I agree!

Why? I feel like that seal isn’t deadly

@@hudsonh3985 do your research. She was lucky because that animal is a killer

@@norapcap8541 Happened on tuesday. It doesnt eat tuesdays.

@@hudsonh3985 ummm they are as deadly as a hungry lion or a Grizzly bear with cubs

it's super cute i don't blame you

Wouldn't we all what to

I would loose a hand i think

Buzz kill

no im sorry for wut i said

+osama obama bin laden

+osama obama LOL

Hahaha! Yeah that fang is scary!

Wtf are you doing here?

No, I see this guy almost everywhere (RU-vid)... I understood what he was saying tho.

You have no idea how close that lady came to dying. Leopard seals are dangerous.

u mean the ship from the movie with Richard Harris

Adorably terrifying creatures I’d say, efficient killers and incredibly curious... doesn’t mix too well.

They're huge, and can be very aggressive.

Kasbian Vaulks yup, and can easily tear a human from limb to limb in any kind of water gear, and can also crush your skull before you're aware it's happening with its massive and powerful jaws/teeth. That's part of her awe, she got to "play" with what's basically a freaking bear with fins.

I'd hug it

Leopard seals can be very deadly . it might look cute but some of them are very agressive so , you dont want to mess with 'em .

It's called a Leopard Seal - not a puppy seal.

@iris bOT23 *almost* gets *attacked* by the seal

She’s just never seen them

Lol, hilarious, 👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸

Lol she probably meant being with them at a close distance. It's as if the Leopard seal is an A-class celeb, that she never got to meet in close up. But one day, she suddenly meets it, so close. So she starts fangirling. hehe.

@@WoozyCool that's the joke bro😂

@@jones6613 uhhhh ya, that was what the OP meant...

@Zangief The Red youre dumb. what he said was basically true.

I mean, Seals and Sea Lions were originally bears. But yes, extremely dangerous animal that shouldn’t be interacted with.

@@ruedestrae8199 maybe if you're soft

Ever seen the video of one shaking a penguin out of its skin?

We have a Leapord seal skull at the lab- very impressive dentition...

it is a leopard seal; aggressive deadly predator that eats penguins and other seals

IKR. I watched the video thinking she was terrified wanting to get out but then,ends the video with " I fell in love with seals" like it could've bit your arm off out of curiosity whaaaaat

Slamthepoet Looked cute asf You can't Really blame them for eating penguins It's just the natural food cycle just like how we slaughter cows to get out steak

it's the biggest seal with the biggest teeth. they only see in green funnily enough. no red and blue in their eyes, they kind of see in grey. isn't that weird. I will love it if there is a news article where a seal attacked a human one day... I doubt it will happen. seals are clever and they would not attack something with that has a boat and a camera. only if you swim up there in your undies.

Well Richard, 1500 lbs it's a little to much but I think she's about 1200-1300 lbs.

What about the seal?

Yea what about the seal

Yeah actually what about the seal?

LOL

The water will be....dirty. Ahem.

Would've. Cmon dude, easy and common spelling error that's so basic...

Nickhead87 yes, I’ve always found the products of Public Schools to be a bunch of ignorant arseholes!

Same 😂 Maybe she wouldnt even touch me then😂

sorry but that's not true.

Abe Sammy no they don't. If they did, the research camps in Antarctica would be surrounded by leopard seals because that is where all the humans are.

Espen Aven Skeie humen

Espen Aven Skeie especially in the water

@vagosdiamond200 nope only ctive human hunter is the polar bear, probably because it eats everything it can find cause it's always starving

Like for real😂😂😂

Only said it to look cool

But can you blame her tho?

that seal was not aggressive at all lol, if it was the lady would have scars or even be dead. the seal was merely curious

How many people have been killed by leopard seals?

@@bproducer The death of marine biologist (Kristy Brown) in Antarctica is thought to be the first human fatality caused by a leopard seal.There are a few records of adult leopard seals attacking humans.

Always carry a knife. Im not one who would want to kill a leopard seal or even a shark, but I will if my life is in danger and a knife is actually a very very effective weapon against both.

@@GreyBlackWolf if a shark really wants to attack you it’ll attack you before you know about it, you’ll never have time to pull out a knife underwater. And if it’s close enough to stab with a knife you’ve already been bitten, better off with a pole with a point, just my opinion, I’d prefer to keep some distance

@@Jim-tb7sj almost all shark attacks are not instantly fatal. Many people are grabbed by a limb. So they do still have time to fight back.

Lobot, I really dig your studio phones. Dr. Dre could've made an inflation-adjusted billion hyping that space-age rig.

You win Mr Lobot, you win 👏

And 100 likes

*chuckles*

Thought this would get a lot of likes, did you?

Next time she may not be so lucky !! Awesome footage though.

whoa... not sure if he was just playful or really hungry :/

Yikes, can you leave skid marks in water? Ahhhhh!

Sooner you than me

bixo feros

Sounds like my ex when she was on the meth

@@BigBadJerryRogers i- I haven’t genuinely laughed at a comment until now

"Extremly quick"

@@haydenlee7689 bro must be watchin on 1.5x 😂😂😂

@@haydenlee7689 I believe OP talks about the little dashes, which are really quick, and probably almost nightmarish if you were in the water lol

Most hunters are strong :P ANYTHING that has teeth and lives under water should be feared. LOL!

@@allandonald6248 or anything that is made of steel and can launch torpedoes

Hahahahahahaha

And your on its turf..😳

A bit?

I would be too scared to encounter a leopard seal who thought I was lunch.

hopefully it's the last thing on it...

+songsongandsong22 First world future plans...

Too bad climate change is making the Arctic melt

Batiosts that's even better ! Now that the arctic is melting into the other oceans everyone can swim in the arctic since a little bit of the arctic will be everywhere

Therese Eriksson hahaha mansplaining? Hes just saying what would happen if it was hungry

"mansplaining" uh oh folks. triggered radical feminist incoming

I consider myself pretty liberal, but if you un-sarcastically use the word "mansplaining" you just have a big ol' dump in your pants.

Therese Eriksson mansplaining isn't a real thing lmao

So much anger and sexism in these comments lol

Luckily the only wild non-human animal that will actually actively hunt humans as a source of food are polar bears . . . On the polar opposite side of the world 😅

@@luckytri9716 Leopard seals have also killed humans.

@@dimitristsekeris1821 I am aware. So have many other animals, carnivore or otherwise. Regardless, polar bears are the only non-human animal that will actively hunt humans as a source of food.

@@luckytri9716 now when you say non-human animal, makes me curious what human animals are.....

@@dougbenson8975 Humans are animals; it's a bit morbid but I am referencing cannibals ( . . . I'm a criminologist so . . . 😯🤷‍♀️)

Lol

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true

A leopard seal can't crack open a whole skull but I get what you mean

Someone should make a meme of that.

Thanks for that visual ur right

Great comment

Abraham Montano wut? "Leopard" seal or are you trolling?

Abraham Montano seals are also referred as "sea lions". So guess what.!..

@@beatbeast747 they evolved from bears tho

Leopard seals being the Antarctic's equivalent of the polar bear, of the Arctic.

Abraham Montano true. Adorable from a distance- a mixed bag up close.

This comment went like four different directions

yep but she can kill you in 0.0001sec....

playing with the food

Solar Hellas that’s bad table manners to play with food

Not likely considering they put most of their energy into powering large muscles, there's also no self recognition anywhere else in sealdom

Bottlenose dolphins and orcas actually pass the mirror test :)

fiendin281 Please don't coin the term Biology to allow you to win an argument, very few animals have been proven sentient

fiendin281 Ah, I can see you're one of those "I fucking love science.." documentary jockey types, we have scientifically recognised few species as sentient, I am not using my definition, I am using the biologists definition, please keep to facts rather than speculation, this isn't a thesis and you arn't supporting it like one

fiendin281 Okay, I'm not sure as to the intent of your comments, are you trying to prove in a comments section on youtube that this animal is self aware simply because humans in the past and still in the present do not know every fact about the universe? Sentient, Noun, is used to refer to ones abilities to perceive the surroudnings and it's interaction with ones self, i.e. feeling pain when cutting yourself. Sentient, Adjective, is used to refer to the consciousness and self awareness, if an animal is not self aware, it cannot be placed in the category known as Sentient. I have tried to make this as transparent for you as possible but by simply googling sentience you could have seen that there are pages on its philosophical and scientific meaning or if you are really interested in the topic please feel free to read some journals on the topic but don't post your personal theories as if they were fact in an attempt to educate someone unless you are going to clearly mark them as something you have come up with. The reason I posted mine without such a disclaimer is these animals have not been identified as sentient in terms of their ability to be self aware, I am going off the facts of today in a world where facts come and go, if/when my comment is no longer true fair enough, but until then, unless you personally have finished your research and just haven't got around to publishing it fair enough, otherwise you are assuming your results before having collected data in which case someone probably needs to check them for repeatability, of course, there is the possibility you arn't a scientist....

Pali Aha have you ever seen happy feet

Nah fam those things can rip you piece by piece if they feel like it.. That's why the lady was trying to get outta there

Well. Those animals have attacked divers before and are able to inflict serious damage. But then again, would you put "deadly" in the title of a vid, showing a playfull and non threatening bear?

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Only happened once, not lots. And it was by mistake (the diver was wearing a black diving suit which made her look like a penguin in the seal's eyes)

Correct.

Good observation, I was having a really hard time reading its name

Leopards are stunning too!! I'd be in awe to see either of these beautiful creatures in the wild 🥰

@@luckytri9716 I was lucky enough to see one in Sri Lankas oldest national park. Our guide was driving us towards a reported sight of a leopard and halfway there all of a sudden another leopard crossed the road 100m ahead like it was Sunday noon... I call myself fortunate for having seen this majestic animal in person

They are alternatively just known as sea leopards, I think the name fits. That curiosity was definitely a predatory sign. No wild animals getting that close to you unless it knows it can deal an instant killing blow.

One of the moments where you become jesus and just sprint back to te boat

*crying seal meme comes up*

Rookie Freediver that seal could have ripped her hand off, so touching it wouldn't have been the safest thing to do.

Robbie They also are not allowed to actually touch the animals in Antarctica due to regulations, which has lead to some frustrated leopard seals as the divers can't take the dead penguins that the seal brings them. There is a video somewhere on RU-vid where a leopard seal catches a penguin and brings it to a diver (still alive), and lets it go right in front of the diver, which it then swims away and bolts towards the shore to get out of the water. The seal just looked at the diver with a confused look as it watched the penguin swim away. The seal then decided to catch the diver another penguin, but wounds it first so that it can't swim as fast, but as the seal lets the penguin go in front of the diver, it swims away and the seal gets the confused look on it's face yet again. The seal then proceeds to catch and kill penguins to give to the diver, but since the diver can not accept the gift, it just starts to sink. Every time the penguin sinks so far down (below the diver's flippers) the seal would retrieve it and attempt to give it to the diver again. Each time the diver doesn't take the penguin the seal's look of confusion begins to turn into frustration until the seal just decides to carry the penguin with it, most likely with the plan to not let go of the penguin again until the diver reaches for it.

goldenhedgehog9 That is adorable and sad at the same time

Voracious T what are "orca whales"?

killer whales , like free wily

Voracious T No, you either call them Orcas, or Killer Whales, there is no such thing as an Orca whale, as Orcas are not whales, but instead Dolphins, very large dolphins. The nickname Killer Whale has done nothing but make people think that Orcas are whales.

goldenhedgehog9 the nickname "Killer Whale" comes from the original name Whale Killer, since fishermen pods of Orcas literally ripping whales to shreds and eating them. Yes, they are big enough to do that. Its like with Adder snakes. They were originally called Nadders but when people verbally said "I saw a Nadder" or something like that the other person thought they were saying "an Adder." The nickname just changes over time.

goldenhedgehog9 well... Technically dolphins are part of the whale family. No matter how you put it, in the end orcas are whales

A Tem how so?

The question how well fed was it before the encounter.

Did u just assume it's gender ?

Aquaman we already know it's a female seal in the video....

Aquaman they said in the video that it was a female seal.

Those things kill people

Cute ? Have you look at that situation with a critical eye ? Your underwater in the end of the world and a huge predator comes literaly out of the blue. Its not like on land, where you can run, or breath naturaly..that must be terrifying. Maybe Cute once you realize your not his dinner.

Yeah, that headline is yellow journalism and is not befitting of the Society.

How many times have you come across a human? Several hundred thousand? I bet if you came across 50 leopard seals you'd at least get jacked by one of them. Leopard seals, sharks, big cats, snakes -people want to pretend that they're harmless and their risks barely exist, but that's because you live in a cushy house away from anything likely to eat you. Leopard seal = deadly. It's a predator, it eats animals, like you.

Justice Harmony Ever met a chicken that was roaming the ocean, those are deadly.

yeah my dude, never fuck with them water chickens.

surely the reason is cos that seal could have killed her in secs. She was lucky it was friendly

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