Orcas attack Boats more Severe 🐳 🐳 🐳
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Phaenon — 1 year ago(April 02, 2024 10:02 PM)
TaraDeS said...
by Juan Kerr April 02, 2024 11:23 PM
Member since September 10, 2018
I sometimes tell the real Juan Kerr about the boards Tara
He's holding on, his mind isn't what it used to be, but I think he's still got some fight in him yet
I know he would have asked "Which coast?" when speaking about orcas off the coast of Spain, but that's just him all over. Always a stickler for details.
I'm surprised that Scots are among the biggest hooligans in relation to orcas. In Scotland anyone who ventures out has nothing but respect for all mammalian life in the water.
But not many people venture out onto the water in Scotland unless it's in a ferry, so perhaps it's the alcohol, sunshine and easy to access day trips out in Spain which are really the problem
But, that's just Europeans for you!
Yah, the Scots row their ferries.
And the Scots are known for being silent teetotalers.
Gute Nacht, Juanita!
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Nacht nacht Schnuckiputzi!
Ding Dong
!
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(April 09, 2024 01:41 AM)
The◇Mechanic said...
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by The◇Mechanic April 03, 2024 12:44 AM
Member since March 5, 2022
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Whale found dead in Virginia was hit by a Ship
It was the third North Atlantic right whale to have died from a vessel strike in 2024…and the 40th death in the ongoing
“unusual mortality event”
, a spike in North Atlantic right whale deaths, often from vessel strikes and entanglements in fishing gear, that started in 2017.
North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered with roughly 360 individuals in existence.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/04/04/nation/right-whale-found-dead-virginia-vessel-strike/ -
TaraDeS — 2 years ago(April 01, 2024 08:30 AM)
by /. April 01, 2024 09:38 AM
Member since April 2, 2019
I bet their auntie shamu told them some stories.
Yah, Shamu is one of the orca tragedies.
Just checked…she died in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamu
So it wasn't Shamu.
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(April 03, 2024 03:46 PM)
Thank you for cleaning up the thread!
Orcas solely attacked humans when in captivity.
This young woman survived Shamu's attack back then.
A few months later Shamu died.
Who only blames Seaworld:
Don't go to whale or dolphin shows!
Don't watch movies with trained whales and dolphins!
In most areas these shows are already banned.
Take responsibility and free the Flippers by not bying tickets.
Even though they are portrayed in the movies as if they were swimming in freedom, they aren't free.
They become depressed, psychologically disturbed and die much earlier.
As so many I loved the series
Flipper
.
When they told us what happened to the five
Flipper
actors, I was deeply shocked.
Here's a more recent article from 2021 with a short video.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3701375/dolphin-kathy-flipper-killed-herself/
Across the world you can visit aquariums that treat marine animals well.
English subs available.
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(April 25, 2024 05:28 AM)
Orcas spotted hundreds of Miles from where they should be!
Orcas that have been terrorizing boats in southwest Europe since 2020 were recently spotted circling a vessel in Spain for the first time this year. The close encounter, which took place hundreds of miles from where the cetaceans should currently be, hints that this group is switching up its tactics — and scientists have no idea why.
Since 2020, individuals from this group have been approaching and occasionally attacking boats, sometimes causing serious damage to the vessels and even sinking them. The most recent sinking occurred on Oct. 31, 2023, but the orcas have sent at least three other boats to the bottom of the sea.
However,
no humans have been injured or killed.
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So far, at least 16 different individuals have attacked boats. Eyewitnesses also claim to have seen orcas teaching other individuals how to attack boats, with an emphasis on attacking vessels' rudders to immobilize them.
There is also a suggestion that the behavior may have spread outside the population after a boat in Scotland was attacked by a different group in June 2023. It's impossible to prove this attack was connected to the others.
As the number of attacks has increased, boat owners have started using firecrackers and even guns to scare off the orcas, gCiencia reported. Scientists like López Fernandez have urged for restraint because the
subpopulation is
"in danger of extinction"
.
"We want to transmit real and truthful information,"
López Fernandez said.
"We're not going to hide that the orcas can touch the boats and sometimes break something, but we also have to be aware that what we have in front of us is not a monster."
https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/infamous-boat-sinking-orcas-spotted-hundreds-of-miles-from-where-they-should-be-baffling-scientist
April 16, 2024
"There she blows!" (Moby Dick) -
TaraDeS — 1 year ago(May 14, 2024 10:38 PM)
Orcas again sink Yacht near Strait of Gibraltar - Two people rescued
Two people were rescued after orcas hit the roughly 50-foot Alboran Cognac 14 miles off the coast of Morocco, the 26th orca encounter in the region this year.
The Rock of Gibraltar seen from a ferry in the Strait of Gibraltar last year.
The boat-sinking orcas are back.
Around 9 a.m. Sunday near the Strait of Gibraltar, two people on board the roughly 50-foot Alboran Cognac reported blows to the vessel’s hull and saw damage to the rudder as water flowed into the ship, Spain’s maritime rescue agency said.
An unknown number of killer whales had struck again, after hundreds of such encounters in recent years.
Over the radio, responders told the two individuals to put on their life jackets, make sure their GPS locaters were turned on and prepare for emergency evacuation. In the meantime, Spanish and Moroccan rescue agencies began urgently working to save them, locating a nearby oil tanker and electing not to dispatch a helicopter.
After about an hour, that tanker rescued the pair 14 miles off Cape Spartel in northern Morocco, the Spanish Maritime Safety and Rescue Agency (SASEMAR) said in a news release. The boat was left adrift and soon sank.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/14/orcas-yacht-ambush-gibraltar/
May 14, 2024
Currently 304 comments to that article, worth to read.
Edit to add
(funniest comment)
"Interpol should look into these Spanish orcas and put out arrest warrants for them."
"There she blows!" (Moby Dick) -
TaraDeS — 1 year ago(June 02, 2024 07:47 PM)
There is now some clear advice on how to avoid meeting orcas.
20-meter rule
(about the same in yards)
Orcas don't stay in waters less than 30 meters deep (leastwise not the Iberian Orcas).
The map shows the area where the orcas hunt for tuna and where the boat attacks happened.
Continue quickly
"Stay away from the marked zone! If you stay close to the coast, you won’t have any problems. But if you drive right through it, you will. If you do get in, drive out as quickly as possible, accelerate and leave the two-kilometer zone. This prevents contact with the orcas 90% of the time."
(Dr. Renaud de Stephanis)
https://floatmagazin.de/en/people/the-orcas-riddle-is-solved/?all=1/#page-2
In a recent article of the fishing magazine
"Blinker"
is another video of an orca attack.
Nothing new, but the calf is cute.
And the broken rudder floating away was kind of funny.
https://www.blinker.de/angelmethoden/angeln-allgemein/news/mit-video-killerwale-lernen-voneinander-boote-zu-zerstoeren/
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TaraDeS — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 04:16 AM)
Two young Orcas ram Sailboat off northern France — 800 Miles from 'Attack' Hotspot
Coastguards had to tow a 40-foot-long sailboat back to port after two young orcas severely damaged the boat's rudder near Guilvinec in the French region of Brittany.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/2-young-orcas-ram-sailboat-off-northern-france-800-miles-from-attack-hotspot
July 19, 2024
At least 6 dead, 7 missing as fishing vessel carrying 27 sinks off Falkland Islands.
At least six people are dead and seven missing after a fishing vessel carrying 27 onboard sank in the South Atlantic about 200 miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
The fishing vessel, FV Argos Georgia, requested assistance soon after it began sinking east of the islands at about 4 p.m. local time Monday, the Falkland Islands government said in press release Tuesday.
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The Argos Georgia is managed by Argos Froyanes Ltd, a privately-owned joint British-Norwegian company, and was sailing under the flag of St Helena, another British overseas territories in the South Atlantic.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/23/americas/argos-georgia-fishing-boat-sinks-falklands-intl-latam/index.html
July 23, 2024
The Falkland Islands are too far away, aren't they?
"There she blows!" (Moby Dick)