California Sea Lion: Split-Second Underwater Encounter at Hartley Bay

Blink and you’ll miss it! 👀 A California sea lion makes a lightning-fast appearance in this underwater footage from the Hartley Bay Coastal Community Observatory. Among the many species captured on camera, this split-second encounter shows a sea lion speeding through the frame—offering a rare glimpse of these agile marine mammals in action beneath the surface. The Hartley Bay coastal community observatory was deployed in partnership with the Gitga'at First Nation in 2020 at the mouth of the Douglas Channel, at some 85 metres depth, in British Columbia, Canada. The observatory is owned, operated and maintained by ONC, who also distributes the data. Data collected by this observatory is co-owned by the Gitga’at First Nation and ONC. As coastal communities in Canada face a wide range of rapi