Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack
Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack
For the fourth time in two years, a group of unusually brazen orcas in southwestern Europe have sunk a sailing boat after relentlessly attacking it for almost an hour on Halloween.
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I promise I'm not a spy
75Orcanized crime
60Otter 841? Is that you?
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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.
69So 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?
33Maybe just switch from orcas to training sperm whales, and see how that goes first.
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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.
20I 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.
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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.
12Someone needs to just point these orcas in the right direction
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Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
67"Orcas where using that elementary school to attack boats, it was self defense."
29Sadly, 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.
16The public outrage would be pretty big if they just started killing orcas.
7If they killed them because their ship was under attack and they feared for their lives after 4 past sinkings and no navy nearby to help, I'm pretty sure people would find it reasonable.
It took 45minutes, that's long enough to get videos, call for help, maybe try to scare them off and then start harpooning them.
You aren't likely going to survive in a lifeboat when they're taking down your yacht.
If it happens even more, they'll he hunted in the region not just immediate self defense. We don't let killer bears just keep killing.
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Just make sure you have orca spray.
3Maybe it's a good idea to tie some little bells to your swimsuit as well?
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What do you think the orcas are doing?
2Fighting a losing battle.
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Huh this sounds eerily familiar
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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.
43Well I'd be pissed off too if someone visited my home preceded to shit all over it.
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Me and the boys looking for yachts full of rich assholes.28This was not some rich asshole's yacht, but a chartered sailboat full of tourists.
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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.
30Orcas would be all for that actually. They're pretty cruel to their food and they eat sea lions. Including the babies.
15Humans should never point fingers, we are the cruelest by any measure.
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Some part of a group does bad things so let's support attacking random members of that group.
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Nice.
29No, closer to Tangiers.
45slow clap
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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.
24They're ornery cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush
19They've been killing sharks since forever, that is not news
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They're evolving...
18They know...
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They made a Polish boat sink near Morocco as well.
Orcas really hate boats.
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11find it fucking cool that orcas are so smart and learn how to attack these boats from each other
10had anybody The Swarm on their 2023 apocalyptic bingo?
9"A human was killed in Oceania" Or better "Something happened somewhere"
Europe is quite vague.
7They 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.
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but do they eat the humans after they sink the boat?
6The boat was towed to shore, then sank after
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So basically what you're saying is some Orcas saw a Miyazaki movie too many, amd said "yes. YES. that."?
6Halloween 14: The Orcanning
5Gottem
3Time to watch Blackfish.
2I thought it was smaller boats and not the super yachts we're fantasizing about being sunk.
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