View Underwater Harbor Seal Swimming Images. National geographic society and alaska department of fish and game worked cooperatively on a seal research project in endicott arm in southeast alaska in 2012. Its eyes are adapted for seeing in dark, underwater environments, and its sight is better in the water than it is on land.

The female nurses her pup for 3 to 4 weeks although a typical foraging dive lasts for just a few minutes, the harbor seal can stay underwater for. There are several subspecies, such as the pacific harbour seal, phoca vitulina richardsi, which inhabit the b.c. The harbor seal's sensitive whiskers detect changes in water flow and they are able to swim within hours of being born.

While swimming safely in the surf, harbor seals will often curiously observe people walking on beaches.

A harbor seal's hearing is almost 14 times greater under water. Three seals on rocks with one swimming. Harbor seals' large, dark eyes are well adapted for underwater vision, but they have poor eyesight on land and. Harbor seal underwater (stock footage).