Plunge into the Pacific to see the ocean’s rare and dazzling creatures. Tune in for #BigPacificPBS on Wednesdays, beginning June 21, at 8pm on #ninePBS. http://www.ninenet.org/blogs/program-highlights/big-pacific/ | Nine PBS

Video highlights of last week's Eastern Tropical Pacific Killer Whales. This pod was super boat friendly, as are many Orcas documented off the coast of Mexico. On the whole, there's not a lot of definitive science on these animals, although this publication/catalog from NOAA is a starting point: https://swfsc-publications.fisheries.noaa.gov/publications/TM/SWFSC/NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-428.pdf | Pacific Offshore Expeditions

As winter gives way to spring, Pacific grey whales make their way up the coast from their southern breeding grounds in Mexico to their northern feeding grounds. Along the way, these grey whales must run the gauntlet of the California coast where mammal earring killer whales with a taste for grey whale lay in wait. Bigg’s (Transient) killer whales are typically known to target juvenile grey whales as they make their way north; however, a few weeks ago, a dramatic hunting effort was documented in