A seal rests on Charvet Drucker's boat in the Saratoga passage between Camano and Whidbey Island on Sunday, north of Seattle.

A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto the stern of her boat.

Charvet Drucker was on a rented 20-foot boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles northwest of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas.

The orcas’ co-ordinated movements and tail slaps suggested they were hunting. Drucker used the zoom lens on her camera to spot a harbour seal that was trying to flee from the pod. One of her shots showed the seal flying through the air above the scrum of o

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