PHOTO OF THE DAY March 1, 2005  

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Where Glacier Bay, Alaska
When 1977
Photographer Steve Raymer

Killer whales break the water's surface of Glacier Bay in Alaska. Also known as orcas, these marine mammals often use echolocation to find their prey, which usually consists of fish and squid.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Risk and Reward on Alaska's Violent Gulf," February 1979, National Geographic magazine)


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