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Orcanized crime is out of control
Posted on 5/14/24 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 5/14/24 at 10:41 pm
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After another ramming of a boat by an orca in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spanish authorities recommended small vessels stick to the coastline in that region to avoid often-scary interactions with killer whales during the summer.
In the latest incident, two people aboard a 15-meter (50-foot) boat in Moroccan waters requested help from Spain’s maritime rescue service Sunday after reporting that an orca knocked the craft several times, damaging its rudder and causing a leak. The people were picked up by a passing oil tanker summoned by the rescuers, and their boat later sank.
Spain’s ministries for transport and the environment, along with its merchant marines, issued notices Tuesday urging both sailing boats and small motorboats to beware of orcas between May and August in the area between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Gulf of Cadiz.
The Atlantic Orca Working Group, a team of Spanish and Portuguese marine life researchers who study killer whales near the Iberia Peninsula, says were 197 such known interactions in 2021 and another 207 in 2022.
A pod of orcas even disrupted a sailing race last year, when a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Italy had a 15-minute encounter with the animals, prompting the crew to drop their craft’s sails and raise a clatter to fend them off.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 10:43 pm to Jim Rockford
i give this a solid 7.5/10.
whale done Jim.
whale done Jim.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 2:45 am to Jim Rockford
For some reason I’m siding with the orcas on this one.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:30 am to sqerty
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Hmmm, sounds fishy.
Ackshually...
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:40 am to Jim Rockford
Killer Whales are the most effective form of border control since the lessees in the west all want us to be one open society
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:41 am to Jim Rockford
Whale...p. They're in their habitat. Get what you get.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:17 am to Klark Kent
here's another for team orca
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:26 am to Jim Rockford
someone showed them the documentary
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:33 am to olemc999
Humans are a threat. There's enough pollution in their waters to kill Moby Dick.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:46 am to Jim Rockford
I cetacean what you did there Flipper.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 6:05 am to Jim Rockford
Willy and his baws sick of being merely attractions at Sea World.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 7:44 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Can we put them in the Rio Grande?
Posted on 5/15/24 at 7:50 am to Jim Rockford
If orcas ever adapt to living on dry land we are all fricked...
Posted on 5/15/24 at 7:51 am to Jim Rockford
I was there just before Covid. I could see both Europe and Africa from both sides of the boat. Could have been me.
ETA: Dropping a couple of offshore blasting caps about 6' will fix their little soirée.
ETA: Dropping a couple of offshore blasting caps about 6' will fix their little soirée.
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 7:54 am
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