Latest Update good story of the year is a realistic video of an orca doing fast rudder on a very fancy sailboat off the coast of Spain this past April. This is the latest in a series of killer whale attacks that have occurred over the past three years, but especially in the last month.
The boat in question is an extremely fancy thing Bali 4.8 catamaran sailboat operated by the charter management company Catamaran Guru. Boasting six bedrooms and six bathrooms, the boat is nicer than most people’s home. But orcas don’t care about your super-large interior or the ice maker on board—orcas care about their home and other orcas.
According to for companythe captain on the boat had experience with killer whales in this area, And attacks are on the rise because orcas have now experienced:
Captain Kriz has reported to several news outlets that in 2020 he was attacked by a school of small orcas. And in April 2023, the crew of the Bali 4.8, which he was piloting near the Strait of Gibraltar, felt like it was being hit by one wave, then another. Immediately the captain thought, “Oh no, not again!”.
Since Captain Kriz knew what was going on, the crew were able to videotape the encounter that caused them to lose control. The crew on the brand new Bali 4.8 limped to Barbate, Spain, using its engines. Kriz said it seems the whales are becoming more strategic because during his first mammal attack three years ago, he could hear them communicating underneath the boat for a while. now when they push the boat around the sea and take the rudder. The most recent attack was in silence for only 15 minutes with both rudders bitten off, with one whale returning to retrieve the last piece of rudder that remained after the initial removal.
A strange harbinger of things to come, humanity! I especially like the scene where the orcas comes back with the last bit of rudder and emerges succinctly as if to say “ha ha, who has the rudder now!”
Researchers believe a whale nicknamed Gladis was injured by an illegal fishing boat and is seeking revenge by Teach other young orcas how to attack the rudder. The attacks are disabling ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, which connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with Spain on one side and Morocco on the other. While the attacks started in 2020, there are there were 20 such attacks just last month.
Not since ever there is aqua news that brought so many people together. To date, no one has been reported injured or killed in these attacks, although killer whales have sunk at least three boats since 2020. However, what the attacks do The work caused is mainly the price to pay the rich (or their insurance company) thousands of repair bills. Orcas won again.
