After the Breach Podcast

12/11/2024

Our latest episode is live and we welcome back our friend, of to talk about more killer whale rescues he’s been involved with, including the ongoing story of T109A3A Kʷiisaḥiʔis (Brave Little Hunter).

We know we took a bit of a hiatus as our season got busy towards the end but we look forward to bringing you a slew of great, new episodes! Thanks for listening!

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13/10/2024

Today is Jeff’s birthday so we celebrated with an orca cake! Happy birthday Jeff!

19/09/2024

This week announced the newest arrival to the Southern Resident killer whale population—L128! The new calf belongs to 31-year old L90 “Ballena”.

Photo of L90 “Ballena” from 2015.

22/08/2024

Part 2 of Demystifying Killer Whales has dropped. The gang (Jeff, Sara, Michael, and Monika) is back together to talk about more topics they didn’t cover the first time. It’s a blend of humor and seriousness and you might notice they’re all a bit sleep-deprived. That’s August for you!

14/06/2024

Everybody love ms a baby (orca) photo! Oh, and also our latest episode just dropped with Monika from and Michael from the Center for Whale Research! They joined us to chat about a topic that we often discuss off the air but wanted to bring it to our listeners: demystifying killer whales.

Being around these amazing animals sometimes has us seeing them through a human centric filter. It’s often easy to see ourselves in them and we think this is one of the many reasons people love them. But we also feel like it’s important to recognize that they are amazing creatures because they are social, intelligent individuals and they are not human. As we spend more and more time around them the more questions we have.

But there are a few persistent themes the four of us have heard about killer whales and we take this episode to address some of them. These may (or may not) be unpopular opinions but we hope they at least open some new conversations as we navigate this world as humans alongside other intelligent creatures. What we feel and do and think is probably not what they feel and do and think, even if we’d like to believe we’re like them or they’re like us. We don’t mean to diminish how impressive they are, but rather recenter that admiration and amazement outside of our human lens.

31/05/2024

On Episode 29 co-hosts, Jeff and Sara, welcome Judith Scott to the show. Judith has been around the world watching whales and spends much of her year in Iceland with the killer whales of the North Atlantic. She gives an introduction to the killer whales they see regularly off of Iceland and shares some stories about those whales. These killer whales feed primarily on herring, but some of them will switch to prey on seals in the summer! The three chat about that and more.

On Episode 29 co-hosts, Jeff and Sara, welcome Judith Scott to the show. Judith has been around the world watching whales and spends much of her year in Iceland with the killer whales of the North Atlantic. She gives an introduction to the killer whales they see regularly off of Iceland and shares s...

04/05/2024

On Episode 28 of After the Breach co-hosts Jeff and Sara dive into Steller’s sea lion hunts, recent sightings, and some good news surrounding T109A3A. This spring has been one that has been filled with a lot of sea lion hunts. And for many of these hunts the whales involved have been, or included,...

16/04/2024

On Episode 27 of After the Breach podcast co-hosts Jeff and Sara share all about the most recent sightings from the Salish Sea. It has been a busy few weeks whale-wise and the duo felt they needed to catch up about it almost as soon as they had finished recording the previous episode! Dive in with t...

29/03/2024

Our latest episode has dropped where we talk about Jeff’s most recent trip to the Silver Bank and some recent sighting and news. There’s so much happening that we’ll be recording another sighting update soon!

Thanks for listening and if you enjoy if please share it with your whale-loving friends!

29/03/2024

Episode 26 of After the Breach Podcast finds co-hosts, Jeff and Sara, reunited after Jeff’s trip to the Silver Bank to swim with humpback whales at the largest breeding ground in the world for North Atlantic humpback whales. Jeff shares some of the amazing highlights from his time there, including...

11/03/2024

On Episode 25 of After the Breach Podcast, co-hosts Jeff and Sara welcome back their friend and colleague, Gary Sutton. Aside from being a captain in the Salish Sea he has also been working with OceanWise as a researcher and he joins in to talk about the research he’s a part of and some exciting u...

26/02/2024

Episode 24 of After the Breach is a long-awaited FAQ episode. Co-hosts, Jeff and Sara have been collecting questions from listeners and guests to Maya’s Legacy Whale Watching for a while and now they’re going to sit down and answer as many as they can. This will be the first FAQ episode but with...

13/02/2024

Episode 23 finds co-hosts Jeff and Sara back home in Washington State after their visit to Bremer Bay, Western Australia. Join these (more than) slightly jet-lagged whale enthusiasts as they chat once again with their friend and colleague, April Ryan, about their trip down under. This will be the la...

29/01/2024

Episode 22 is up!

Jeff and Sara are still in Bremer Bay and even though they’re on the water almost every day they made time to share a few of their highlights from the last couple weeks. Joining them again is their friend and colleague, .ryan.182. This episode will spotlight just a few of their favorite moments but rest assured you’ll be hearing even more from them about the trip as soon as they’re home!

29/01/2024

Episode 22 of After the Breach finds co-hosts, Sara and Jeff, still down in Bremer Bay, Western Australia with their friend and colleague, April Ryan. They have had so many encounters over the past two weeks and there’s so much to share! This time around the three of them share a quick highlight r...

15/01/2024

Episode 21 of After the Breach finds co-hosts, Jeff Friedman and Sara Shimazu, coming to you from on the road. The two are down in Bremer Bay, Western Australia for the month of January and with them is their colleague and episode guest, April Ryan, who joined them on Episode 8 “Orcas Take a Minke...

01/12/2023

Our latest episode has just dropped and it’s hard to believe we’ve already done 20 episodes. Thanks for tuning in with us—this podcast has been a bigger thing than we ever imagined it would be. We can’t wait to bring you more whale-filled content!

Shout out to all of our listeners, all those who have joined us on the podcast, and of course to the whales (not that they care about shout outs 😂). We couldn’t do it without all of you!

Stay safe out there!

01/12/2023

On this episode of After the Breach podcast, hosts Jeff Friedman and Sara Shimazu are joined by Monika Wieland Shields from Orca Behavior Institute to recap the season in numbers. We discuss sightings data for both Southern Resident killer whales (salmon eaters) and Bigg's killer whales (marine mamm...