Animals and Nature (Thou Shalt Not Fuck With)

Lord Mayo said:
arent there a pod of orcas in straight of gilbraltar that have been smashing and sinking boats?
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Yeah.... The orcas have been striking the rudders, for some reason and it's led to a few boats sinking. At first it was thought that this might have been behavior that started as revenge over a female orca getting hurt by a rudder, but I guess they eventually ruled that out as a reason.


Breaching whales have landed on boats before, too. I don't know why this incident is getting the publicity it has. And this happened just a couple of years ago here in New England, so it's not even as if it's been a long time between incidents:


Whale lands on boat off Massachusetts coast in ‘insane’ moment caught on video



And here's a relatively recent one from Australia, with significant injury involved:


Teen in critical condition after breaching whale lands on fishing boat
 
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Lord Mayo said:
arent there a pod of orcas in straight of gilbraltar that have been smashing and sinking boats?
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Orcas relentlessly battered a yacht in a “terrifying” two-hour attack Wednesday that didn’t end until the $128,680 vessel sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

Robert Powell, 59, and his crew were just 22 hours into their 10-day trip from Vilamoura, Portugal, to Greece when the pod set its sights on the £100,000 — or $128,680 — sailing boat.


“To me, they were not playing at all, they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew the weak points of the boat, and they knew how to sink it,” Powell, who was meant to be celebrating his birthday aboard the boat, told SWNS.
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“Their sole intention was to sink the boat, and that was it.”

The five orcas circled the 39-foot sailing boat and took turns smashing it to bits around 8 p.m. in a coordinated assault Powell compared to the carnage of wolves...
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Killer whales sink $128K yacht in ‘terrifying’ 2-hour Mediterranean Sea attack: ‘Like watching wolves hunt’
 
 
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