Or worse, a seal. I watched a doc a few years ago during Shark Week about the great whites that go airborne off the coast of South Africa. The film makers tied a surf board that was cut to shape to look like a seal and then towed it across the channel. Sharks started hitting it repeatedly, because from the depths, they just see the familiar silhouette against the sun at the surface.
Tough way to go however you slice it "That incident, in which Tilikum, a captive whale in British Columbia, pinned his trainer to the pool bottom, drowning her, is generally deemed to have been horseplay, just a misunderstanding, a simple failure of the whale to appreciate the difference between human breath-hold capacity and his own." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...ish-orca-killer-whale-keiko-tilikum-sea-world
The film Blackfish goes into a ton of detail about this whale. An intelligent (near sentient?) animal with a lifetime of trauma at the hands of humans and a track record of going after trainers... not sure the above description is totally accurate IMO. I really think he might’ve been looking for a little payback.
Our big alligator I’ve posted on here before was bellowing outside our bedroom last night. Took us a minute to realize what it was. Took the flashlight and he was at the bank with his back arched. Cool site to see.