In 1997, a group of whale watchers off the San Francisco, California coast near the Farallon Islands witnessed an amazing event, a great white shark being killed by an orca.Although various videos have been available of the event, National Geographic is currently airing a special called “A Night of Exploration: Killer Whale vs. Jaws” and they are showing the original footage in HD quality (see below) which is by far, better quality than any of the other videos out there.The video is mixed with both above & below the water footage including some reenactment.A point of interest not mentioned in the video is that following the attack, all the great whites disappeared from the area.In a 2004 article by National Wildlife titled “Showdown at Sea,” they note that from September to December this rocky island attracts thousands of seals and sea lions which in turn brings about one of the world’s largest congregations of great white sharks. Males can be up to 4m (12ft),Weight: More than 2.25 tonnes - the equivalent of 30 men.Diet: Mainly fish, but they also hunt dolphins, seals, seal lions and occasionally sea turtles.Deadliest feature: Great whites ambush their prey and have more than 300 razor sharp teeth that grow up to 5.7cm long. And just like in 1997, following this killer whale attack, no great whites were observed for the remainder of the season.But most shocking about the 2000 attack is that approximately six months later, a tagged great white named Tipfin who frequented the Farallon Islands had his tag pop off which provided researcher Schulman-Janiger with a surprising minute-by-minute account of Tipfin’s movements immediately after the attack.“On the hour of the attack, Tipfin abruptly dropped to 500 meters and headed west,” says Pyle. When we think of the ocean’s top predators, most of us are probably going to picture sharks. Although the great white shark has a fearsome reputation, in a straight fight it is outclassed by the orca. They had lured the sharks to their research boat using a seal decoy made of carpet fabric, then inserted electronic tags into the sharks to keep track of their movements along the California coast.In 2009, they noticed something odd: 17 of their tagged white sharks had been regularly feeding on elephant seals around SEFI for months. Killer whales have been recorded hunting and eating great white sharks over and over throughout the years all around the globe. 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",Last November, a pod of killer whales was filmed.In 2017, the carcasses of five great whites were found with similar injuries, suggesting they had been attacked and killed by killer whales.A year later, great whites were noticeably absent from False Bay—a popular hunting ground for the species, where they are known to jump out of the water to catch seals. Well, it turns out that killer whales have been known to prey on sharks. Their tails can measure 2.75m (9ft) from tip to tip.Weight: On average they weigh up to six tonnes, but the heaviest recorded was a huge 10 tonnes - the equivalent of 120 men.Diet: Fish, mainly salmon, plus seals and sea lions, sharks and stingrays.Deadliest feature: Killer whales hunt in groups of up to 40 and are smart enough to learn new ways of working together to take down their prey, allowing them to target almost any animal.In Antarctica they have learned to make waves to wash seals off the ice into the water.Most famous of species: Free Willy and Shamu,Length: The females are the biggest, growing up to 6m (20ft) long. This is special stuff," Smith can be heard saying. Killer whales redistribute white shark foraging pressure on seals.Mongabay is a reader-supported conservation and environmental science news service. This annual ritual has been observed by researches since 1989.But following the orca attack on October 4, 1997, all the great whites disappeared and did not return until the following year. https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/killer-sharks-killer-whales-18625402 In the ocean, both the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the killer whale or orca (Orcinus orca) are fearsome top predators. Photo credit: R Pitman, NOAA/SWFSC.Size of a killer whale compared to a human. ",He later adds: "They actually bite the tails off [of the great whites] from the back.