An orca was recently spotted swimming with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Massachusetts in a rare killer whale encounter caught on video. Donna Piraino, of the charter Go Girl Fish, was out fishing for tuna in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off Gloucester this past weekend when her vessel came upon the whale.

The fake video clip gained popularity because there have been multiple confirmed incidents of orcas hurting or killing their trainers in captivity. These tragedies have been extensively chronicled and remembered in documentaries like Blackfish. Some well-known orca attacks that happened are listed below:

A viral video falsely claimed that a marine trainer named Jessica Radcliffe was killed by an orca during a live show. Fact-checking investigations rev