- cross-posted to:
- environment@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- environment@beehaw.org
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”.
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
Good orcas
My spirit animals.
They have acquired the taste for the sweetest of man-flesh.
I wish them well on their hunt.
From all the reports I’ve seen so far, they are in fact not attacking humans, just the boats. Unless this has changed.
I just read that as well. Or there’s just no witnesses. Also read something that they stop attacking if the boat stops.
Well I’m interested in this world (sailing/ living on a sailboat) so I’ve been following fairly close. I don’t believe there’s any known non aggressive way to stop them. Stopping hasn’t been shown to help that I’ve heard/seen
too bad. I thought they were literally eating the rich
Give them time. They haven’t figured out how to open the can yet.
Nature is healing
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.
I hate it when wildlife becomes inedible
Can confirm, this wildlife is not sitting well.
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
That’s basically the intro from The Swarm
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!
Team Orca
Eat the rich.
Ew. Junk food worse than McDonald’s.
🫡
A 49ft sail boat is not exactly a yacht. The orcas need to move up to bigger targets like the mega yachts of the oligarchs. Time to arm the orcas.
There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use. To be termed a yacht, as opposed to a boat, such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and may have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht
That said, I’m all for training and arming the cetaceans.
Hahaha
Based orcas
underwater castle doctrine
Save the whales has regularly been my own personal credo. Who knew it was the whales that would save us.
Arm The Whales!
We need to make them metal armor with Naval Rams on them.