Ugh...this is hard to see....someone needs to get them out of there...

I hope they make it...

A remote community makes an urgent plea for outside help as a pod of orcas struggles to breathe from a tiny hole in the ice.About a dozen killer whales have become trapped in a vast stretch of sea ice in Hudson Bay, Canada.

The animals, stuck in the waters near the remote Inuit community of Inukjuak in Quebec, are taking it in turns to gasp for breath through a hole in the ice.

It was about the size of a van but is reportedly shrinking due to freezing temperatures.

The whales are said to be panicking at times in their desperate bid to get oxygen. The mammals' distress has prompted the locals, who do not have the equipment to rescue them, to issue an appeal for outside assistance.