Footage of a group of divers being forced to cut their dive with beluga whales short after polar bears entered the water nearby.

The video, filmed off the coast of Churchill in northern Canada last year, shows the early part of the dive, featuring a pod of belugas, but eventually the divers are forced to get back on the boat as multiple polar bears start to enter the water to claim the remains of a dead whale.

We travelled all the way to Churchill in northern Canada to dive with the beluga whales. On our very first day swimming with the beluga we were asked to get out of the water. Because multiple polar bears entered the waters of the Hudson Bay to claim the remains of a dead beluga whale!