“So mama seal, basically told me to get away from her pup,” said Halter.
“When I switched from horizontal swimming to vertical treading water I think she felt threatened because my body movements changed and I scared her.”
Halter was spooked by the encounter, but she still loves the pokey pinnipeds. The former collegiate swimmer says she’s encountered the animals during past open-water swims. “Some of my best experiences swimming open water have been with seals,” said Halter. “They’re just curious and I’m not afraid of them.”
Julie Carpenter is curator of birds and mammals at the Seattle Aquarium. News of the incident surprised Carpenter, who reports violent encounters with harbor seals are extremely uncommon. She says the animals are curious but not confrontational. “Very, very rare,” said Carpenter. “Something that we don’t normally hear about so very unfortunate situation.”
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