{"id":86635,"date":"2020-10-10T22:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/killer-whales-orchestrating-revenge-attacks-on-boats-off-spain\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T19:53:13","slug":"killer-whales-orchestrating-revenge-attacks-on-boats-off-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/killer-whales-orchestrating-revenge-attacks-on-boats-off-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"#Killer whales orchestrating revenge attacks on boats off Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Killer whales orchestrating revenge attacks on boats off Spain<\/strong>”
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\n Forget Jaws \u2014 this time it\u2019s personal \u2026 for orcas.<\/p>\n

Killer whales off the coast of Spain are living up to their name, but instead of targeting great white sharks, pods of fish or seals as they have done in the past \u2014 they\u2019re now after people and boats.<\/p>\n

Several scientists think the killers of the deep are attacking yachts and boats due to injuries several of them sustained over the summer from rudders, according to The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have been at least 33 of the bizarre attacks in northern Spain, in the Strait of Gibraltar and off Portugal since July, in which the orcas surround small craft and deliberately ram the ships\u2019 rudders, and attempt to tip them over. The attacks have caused severe damage \u2014 and in some cases, disabled the ships.<\/p>\n

The problem has become so severe authorities are warning small craft not to sail in those seas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trigger for this strange and aggressive behavior could have been an aversive incident that the orcas had with a boat, and in which the speed of the boat could have been a critical factor,\u201d a group of scientists said in a statement to the Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the moment, we have no clear evidence of when it happ<\/a>ened, nor can we say for sure what kind of boat may have been involved, nor whether the incident was accidental or deliberate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers added that as a result of possible injury by boat, the orcas \u201cmay have felt compelled to act when they saw a sailboat in order to slow it down by going after its rudder\u201d \u2014 and adding \u201cthe killer whales could simply be toying with sailboats \u2018out of curiosity\u2019 now that they had discovered the ability to slow or stop a large moving object.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terrified boat owners are not consoled.<\/p>\n

In late July, Victoria Morris\u2019 boat was attacked by a pod of nine killer whales who rammed the boat so hard its rudder broke and the engine failed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe noise was really scary. They were ramming the keel, there was this horrible echo, I thought they could capsize the boat,\u201d Morris told The Guardian<\/a> in another story. \u201cAnd this deafening noise as they communicated, whistling to each other. It was so loud that we had to shout.\u201d Morris added the attack felt \u201ctotally orchestrated.\u201d When her boat finally towed back to port, a large chunk of the rudder was missing and the rest was covered in teeth marks.<\/p>\n

That week, there were two other hour-long attacks in the area \u2014 a 40-foot yacht was spun on its axis during an attack and another boat had its rudder slammed so hard the helmsman of the boat hid his shoulder dislocated.<\/p>\n

Alfonso Gomez-Jordana Martin, a crew member of the latter attack, told the paper: \u201cOnce we were stopped, they came in faster: 10-15 knots, from a distance of about 25m \u2014 The impact tipped the boat sideways.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, Graeme Walker\u2018s 48-foot yacht was assaulted for 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt a thump on the boat and the helm was pulled out of my hand,\u201d he told the paper. \u201cI was not really sure what was happening, then one of the animals broke the surface, on the left-hand side of the boat, for breath. You never know how these things are going to play out. None of us have ever been through anything like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, orcas in South Africa have stepped up attacks on great white sharks, eviscerating them for their nutrient-rich organs.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Killer whales orchestrating revenge attacks on boats off Spain” Forget Jaws \u2014 this time it\u2019s personal \u2026 for orcas. Killer whales off the coast of Spain are living up to their name, but instead of targeting great white sharks, pods of fish or seals as they have done in the past \u2014 they\u2019re now after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Killerwhales.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75227,71594,14026,72019],"class_list":["post-86635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-10-20","tag-animal-attacks","tag-spain","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}