{"id":111804,"date":"2020-11-15T00:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/british-sailor-recounts-terrifying-rogue-orca-attack\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T00:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T21:32:46","slug":"british-sailor-recounts-terrifying-rogue-orca-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/british-sailor-recounts-terrifying-rogue-orca-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"#British sailor recounts ‘terrifying’ rogue orca attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#British sailor recounts ‘terrifying’ rogue orca attack<\/strong>”
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\n It\u2019s still not safe to go back in the water.<\/p>\n

Killer whales attacked again, and one British sailor has recounted the entire \u201cterrifying,\u201d hours-long ordeal.<\/p>\n

David Smith was sailing in a 45-foot yacht off the coast of Portugal in October when his boat was rammed by an ornery pod of orcas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t frighten easily and this was terrifying,\u201d Smith told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smith, \u201cquit the rat race\u201d in 2013 and now delivers new boats to their owners. On this journey, he and several others were delivering the yacht from France to Gibraltar when they were set upon by what he first thought was a school of dolphins.<\/p>\n

According to Smith, an hour before sunset, a crew member called out, noting \u201cit looks like we have some large dolphins\u201d at the back of the boat.<\/p>\n

But Smith saw the distinctive black-and-white patterns of orcas \u2014 and noticed they were behaving very oddly as one dipped below the boat before ramming it for several hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was continuous,\u201d Smith told the BBC. \u201cI think there were six or seven animals, but it seemed like the juvenile ones \u2014 the smaller ones \u2014 were most active. They seemed to be going for the rudder, the wheel would just start spinning really fast every time there was an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group tried to call for help but were out of radio range \u2014 finally reaching the Portuguese Coast Guard on a satellite phone and being told to cut the engine, take down the sails and be as \u201cuninteresting\u201d to the orcas as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo then we were just drifting. But while I was on the phone I could hear them ramming the boat,\u201d Smith recalled. \u201cAt one point, one of the larger animals came right to the stern and flipped onto its back \u2014 you could see its bright white underside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s fear was that the whales would dislodge the rudder stock, penetrating the boat \u2014 inevitably sinking it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that fractures, you\u2019re really in trouble,\u201d Smith told the BBC. \u201cI was definitely preparing to ask the Portuguese Coast Guard to send a helicopter to get us off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attack finally stopped after two hours \u2014 as suddenly as it had started.<\/p>\n

The attack is one of over 40 that have occurred this year in the waters off Spain and Portugal as killer whales focus on people and boats in what several scientists think could be revenge attacks after several of their numbers sustained injuries over the summer from rudders.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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