Hunted / Season 1, Episode 10
Deep Six
APEX Season 1, Episode 10: "Deep Six" --- [CHAPTER 1: THE ATTACKS] The first boat sank on April 14th. A thirty-foot sailing vessel, the Morning Star, was found drifting off the coast of Vancouver Island with her rudder destroyed and her hull breached in three places. The two people aboard—a retired couple from Seattle—were rescued by the Coast Guard, shaken but alive. They told an impossible story: something had attacked them from below. Something large. Something intelligent. "It hit the rudder first," the husband said, still trembling. "Disabled our steering. Then it came back and started working on the hull. Not ramming—working. Like it was figuring out where we were weakest." "What was it?" the Coast Guard officer asked. "Orca. Biggest damn killer whale I've ever seen." The officer wrote it off as trauma-induced exaggeration. Orcas didn't attack boats. They just didn't. Then, on April 17th, a fishing trawler sank. Same pattern. Rudder first, then hull. The crew made it to lifeboats, but they watched the orca circle their sinking vessel for twenty minutes before finally disappearing. "Like it was admiring its work," one fisherman said. On April 20th, a whale-watching boat was attacked in broad daylight. Forty tourists watched as a massive bull orca—at least thirty feet long, with distinctive scarring on his dorsal fin—deliberately rammed their vessel three...