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Orcas continue to mysteriously attack ships, this time launching a yacht ‘like a rag doll’

Orcas continue to mysteriously attack ships, this time launching a yacht ‘like a rag doll’

Orcas may sometimes be called “killer whales,” but that’s not because they’re particularly deadly. Their scientific Latin name is Orcinus orca. “Orcinus” is sometimes translated as “slayer”, but the word actually means “belonging to the realm of the dead”. That said, in recent years, killer whales have really had it for humans — or at least their boats. There have been numerous reports of killer whales attacking and/or sinking aquatic vessels in and around the Mediterranean over the years. Now here’s another one.

According Initiated, a group of five killer whales teamed up to attack a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. A British sailor, now stranded in British territory, said while sailing 20 miles west of the coast he noticed a fin near his boat. Soon there was a series of disturbing and increasingly jerky bumps.

“There was a very big whale pushing along the back of the boat, trying to bite the rudder,” Iain Hamilton told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. This was followed by four smaller orcas bumping into each other several times against the boat.

They managed to pull out a rudder. It was “quite concerning,” Hamilton said. Then they do the same for the second. “We had no mechanism to steer the boat,” Hamilton explained, adding that the killer whales were “pushing us around like a rag doll.”

That being said, Hamilton described the orcas’ actions as “almost playful”, their movement “choreographed, almost, like synchronized swimming”. He also pointed out that if they had wanted to destroy his yacht, they could have done so.

It is not yet known how the incident ended, or how the yacht managed to return to shore.

According to the Atlantic Orca Working Group’, there have been at least 20 killer whale attacks on boats in the area in the past month alone.

But what is causing such a violent increase in the violence of killer whales on boats? A report claims that it is simply a “natural curiosity”. But another, more dramatic argument is that a female killer whale suffered a “critical moment of agony” involving a boat, causing her to not only start attacking ships, but to teach others, including her children. , to do the same. If that sounds like a bad Jaws suite, so be aware that killer whales are exceptionally intelligent and can teach certain behaviors to others.

Meanwhile, the 1977 Jaws rip off orcawith Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson and Bo Derek, broadcast on Showtime.

(Via Initiated)

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