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- But since 2020, orca pods have increasingly targeted sailboats off the Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe. In one instance, three of the black and white whales destroyed a vessel’s rudder, causing it to sink before it reached port. The Spanish coast guard called in a helicopter and sea cruiser to rescue the sailors.
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May 23, 2023 · The string of incidents since 2020 prompted one scientist in Portugal to say the attacks may indicate that the whales are intending to cause damage to sailing vessels. Others, however, are more...
6 hours ago · 5 min. 0. Hundreds of dangerous boat-ramming incidents over the past five years have cast orcas as deep-sea villains plotting to take back the ocean. But the killer whales causing mayhem off ...
May 24, 2023 · Since an initial surge that year, orcas have been documented approaching or reacting to vessels about 500 times, causing physical damage about 20 percent of the time, in the high-trafficked...
Jun 30, 2023 · Orca Attack Map: Killer Whales Have Rammed Boats in These Locations. Published Jun 30, 2023 at 12:15 PM EDT. By Robyn White. Nature Reporter. FOLLOW. A group of infamous orcas have been attacking...
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May 14, 2024 · The orcas are at it again: for the seventh time in four years, a pod of whales has sunk a boat after ramming it in Moroccan waters off the Strait of Gibraltar. The 15 metre-long yacht Alborán Cognac, which carried two people, encountered the highly social apex predators at 9am local time on Sunday, Spain's maritime rescue service said.
Jun 13, 2023 · A picture taken on May 31, 2023, shows the rudder of a vessel damaged by killer whales ( Orcinus orca) while sailing in the Strait of Gibraltar and taken for repairs at the Pecci Shipyards...
May 11, 2023 · Or are there telltale signs of an accident with a ship: gashes from propellers, rust that has rubbed off from the vessel, broken bones or flesh that’s been pushed in from the impact? “I can...
