An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals.
The vessel, Alboran Cognac, which measured 15 metres (49ft) in length and carried two people, encountered the highly social apex predators, also known as killer whales, at 9am local time on Sunday.
The passengers reported feeling sudden blows to the hull and rudder before the boat started taking on water. After alerting the rescue services, a nearby oil tanker took them onboard and transported them to Gibraltar. The yacht was left adrift and eventually sank.
The incident is the latest example of recurring orca rammings around the Gibraltar strait that separates Europe from Africa and off the Atlantic coast of Portugal and north-western Spain. Experts believe them to involve a subpopulation of about 15 individuals given the designation “Gladis”.
Hahaha
LOL nice
Good orcas
Good praxis
The vessel, Alboran Cognac, […] encountered the highly social apex predators
The orcas were clearly aware that the Cognac region is on the Atlantic coast, not the Alboran Sea.
We should arm the orcas.
… with frickin laser beams attached to their heads!
underwater castle doctrine
The orcas gave us enough time bring down the bourgeoisie. Now they’re taking things into their own flippers.
Welp, it’s been nice knowing ya orcas. See you in the extinct animals wiki
Nature is healing
That’s basically the intro from The Swarm
Evolution adapts to multiple problems at once.
A pod of orcas that vigorously defend their food supply, get to eat, and train their offspring to also defend their food supplies.
Orcas that don’t, either die off, or adapt to a different food source.
Thus why climate change is becoming a problem as nature is adapting to food sources becoming less abundant.
and wildlife becoming unfriendly or inedible to adapt to the changes.
My only worry with this is that what will happen is we start hunting them to eradicate or at least contain a threat, like we do to most wild animals who could potentially, perhaps, maybe, harm a human if they intruded on their habitat and territory. Like wolves in europe, we carefully reintroduce them after almost eradicating them entirely, they do what wolves do and prey on some livestock here and there, and people immediately ask for them to be culled.
We have likely killed most of their normal food sources
They have acquired the taste for the sweetest of man-flesh.
I wish them well on their hunt.
lmao
Gladis is latin for ‘sword.’ There’s a militia of a dozen angry boat-sinking orcas with a badass SpecOps nickname, preying on the material resources of the yachting class.
When do we post this one to wholesome news?
A theory I read about the genesis of these attacks reads a lot like the plot of that terrible 1970’s B-movie. It sounded far fetched TBH.
Team Orca