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Slack.com slash DHQ. We're up there just about the time that the polar night occurs, so that

means it's going to be dark, essentially 24 hours a day. The sun never gets above the

mountain peaks, so the light levels are extremely low. And you're in a boat in these little

coves or, you know, the edges of fiords, it's cold, it's dark, it might be snowing.

Brian Skerry has been an underwater photographer and explorer here at National Geographic for

more than two decades. And then when I think the time is right, I take a deep breath and

I slide underwater. He's on a mission to see a pot of killer whales off the coast of

Norway. Also known as Orcas, these are some of the largest, most powerful predators in

the ocean. They hunt everything from humpback whales and sea lions to squid and salmon,

even tiny herring. It should be said that there are no reports of Orcas killing humans

in the wild, but these are school bus size creatures and Brian wants to get up close,

like uncomfortably close. So you're kicking really hard to get down those first few feet,

those first few meters, and then as the suit compresses, you start to sink like a stone,

and it might be a couple thousand feet deep below you. So you've got all of that on your

mind, but you hear these Orcas. They all of a sudden just sort of materialize out of

the green haze in the background. They are intimidating animals. Orca in my estimation

are arguably the most intelligent animal in the ocean, and are capable of just about

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