The ocean community is fighting back
~I~ ~promise~ ~I'm~ ~not~ ~a~ ~spy~
Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
This is the only reason I'm hesitant to cheer for the Orca uprising.
The public outrage would be pretty big if they just started killing orcas.
You want radicalized orca suicide bombers? This is how you get radicalized orca suicide bombers.
You're not wrong:
"These nautical raids were likely started by a pod including White Gladis, a female orca who may have been traumatized by a past boat collision. The unusual behavior then spread among other individuals who seem to be becoming more daring and efficient with their attacks."
From another article on the same incident:
Grazie Mamma was a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 449 measuring just over 13 meters in length. This fits the general description of the vessels targeted by orcas off Spain: According to researchers, the attacks always target sailing yachts measuring less than 15 meters long, usually while under way.
That kind of boat is 45' long (which is liveaboard-size for a family but still not much bigger than an RV), was at least six years old since they quit making them in 2017, and was worth somewhere between $150k and $250k. This one was was owned by a rental company, but it's the kind of thing a middle-class family could afford if they decided to live on it full-time instead of owning a house.
Translation: although this wasn't a "cheap" boat, it was also very much not the deservedly-sunk billionaire's superyacht you were hoping for. Unfortunately, the orcas aren't hurting the right people.
So you're saying we need to genetically engineer larger orcas? How big are we talking, 700-800 meters long? Would it also be okay to shoehorn in the smartness gene that the sharks got in Deep Blue Sea? How about an invisibility gene, just for fun?
Maybe just switch from orcas to training sperm whales, and see how that goes first.
So you're saying, let's maybe not hurry to vote for the Orcas Sinking People's Boats party? That's probably good advice actually.
I don't know what you have against the orcas sinking boats. Classic liberal propaganda, what's this world coming to when orcas can't even sink boats? I won't be a sheep like you, the orcas day they don't even sink boats and let me make up my own mind so Im voting for them.
That’s quite sad. Sailboats are probably one of the most benign transportation and recreation vessels imaginable. Beautiful boats enjoyed by passionate and adventurous people.
Despite receiving aid from the Moroccan Navy and being towed toward safety, the boat eventually sank as it entered the port of Tanger-Med in Morocco. All passengers were safely evacuated to rescue boats before the ship sank.
Well I'd be pissed off too if someone visited my home preceded to shit all over it.
Watching sea lions die from being caught in fishing nets while their mother cries watching them drown.
Get them all Orca friends. Whatever we can't get because it can't be fished, we'll survive.
Orcas would be all for that actually. They're pretty cruel to their food and they eat sea lions. Including the babies.
Nice.
No, closer to Tangiers.
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Nature is fighting back
We're healing
They are also killing sharks in South Africa. So it’s not just humans they are pissed off at. Wonder why they are so angry.
They're ornery cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush
nice
They made a Polish boat sink near Morocco as well.
Orcas really hate boats.
"A human was killed in Oceania" Or better "Something happened somewhere"
Europe is quite vague.
They DO say it's southwestern Europe, where 90% of these stories have been coming from. You could just open the article and have read that instead of posting this stupid shit. It's actually pretty good and isn't even paywalled! You'd have known that if you did the bare minimum.
I'm complaining about the title. They could have said near Morocco or south of spain or whatever. But putting just europe in the title is too generic.
had anybody The Swarm on their 2023 apocalyptic bingo?
find it fucking cool that orcas are so smart and learn how to attack these boats from each other
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Me and the boys looking for yachts full of rich assholes.