DIVER GETS UP CLOSE WITH A LEOPARD SEAL. Posted: November 17, 2024 | Last updated: March 29, 2025. This adorable inquisitive Leopard seal came up close and personal to the camera before swimming away.

Leopard seals may look sleek and graceful, but don’t be fooled—they’re some of the most formidable predators in the Antarctic. In this episode, we dive into the world of these powerful marine mammals, ...

Wear very stretchy dive suits. If a leopard seal comes too close, inflate lots of air so you look like a giant ball and float to the top real fast. 6. Use six-foot flippers so you look taller than the ...

Boyd believes there are three possible reasons why a leopard seal would grab a diver. He says it could be a defensive reaction, having been startled, or a case of mistaking the diver for prey ...

Sitting at a cafe in the Argentine Lake District, I scrolled through my Facebook news feed until an image of a leopard seal caught my eye. My friend posted the photo with a caption that questioned ...

An investigation into the death of a marine biologist killed by a leopard seal in the Antarctic was continuing today.

Leopard seals are the Antarctic’s big, charismatic carnivores, and they have traditionally been cast as villains. Their bad reputation seemed to be earned when, in 2003, a leopard seal drowned ...

A check for invasive aquatic pests around Auckland's Westhaven Marina has been postponed after the dive team happened upon a slightly bigger foreign marine organism: a visiting leopard seal.

Of all the Antarctic mammals surrounding the Western Antarctic Peninsula, seals are the most frequently observed as we travel from dive site to dive site. There are five different species of seals ...

A British scientist has been attacked and killed by a leopard seal while on a snorkelling expedition off the coast of Antarctica. Kirsty Brown, 28, is believed to have drowned on Tuesday afternoon ...

A team of French divers were swimming and taking photos in Antarctica, when a seal photobombed their pictures. The leopard seal, which is quite adorable, swam up close to the camera and did its ...

"Leopard seals are incredibly inquisitive, but are not normally aggressive. If a diver can see a leopard seal, then they will not go in the water because there is a small risk.