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Despite the presence of at least four killer whales, the apex predators of the Pacific, Custance says his kids were in no danger.

“It’s really quite shallow … if they would have started coming that way everybody would have cleared the beach,” he said.

Custance has lived in the area since 1979 and this is the first time he has even seen orcas along Davis Bay beach, a popular swimming and sunning spot just south of Sechelt.

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