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Orcas sink tourist yacht off Portugal’s coast in latest attack

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Orcas sink tourist yacht off Portugal’s coast in latest attack

www.the-independent.com /travel/news-and-advice/orcas-sink-tourist-boat-portugal-killer-whales-b2827350.html

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Yacht lol. It's a sailboat.
I would like them to mob Bezo's yacht. One of them can leap over it Free Willy style, and snap up Mr. Bezos in midflight.
Sink all the yachts
Orcas are more into the class war than the commies at this stage.
- That's cuz commies are too busy defending dictatorships to care about the working class
The orcas might be in danger if they keep this up 😬. Godspeed.
What people think of when they hear the word "yacht:"
The size of boat the whales are actually attacking:
I know everybody wants to root for the whales attacking the billionaire 1%, but that's not what's actually happening.
- Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a Sailboat.
- Oh no, the poor, poor 40' sailboat boat owners. Whatever shall we do.
  
  I know plenty of people who are by no means rich who live on boats that size. Its basically the marine equivalent of living in a camper.
  My best friend lived on one for more than a decade. he got for like $3k and put like $9k of work into it. Had his first kid living on that boat because he couldn't afford to live on land.
  
  You might be surprised at how cheap these things can go. They are a lot to maintain but may not be so much to buy.
- You "only" need to be a hundred millionaire in order to afford to maintain the one in the second photo.
  
  A 40ft Bohemian? A five year old one will set you back €200k in good condition, and cost around 10% of its value in maintenance, mooring and repairs each year.
  People have cars more expensive than that on their driveways.
  
  Many people rent them out. I know because I've met several people who use the service for their vacations every year. It's quite popular, and sometimes comes cheaper than to actually rent an airbnb or a hotel room when split between multiple people.
- The reality is even the small ones aren't good for sea life. They're destroying the sea floor and it's quite detrimental to the ecosystem.
  
  For someone with no prior knowledge - can you explain why is that?
- Oh yeah, tons of middle-class and poor people own sailboats…
  
  You would be surprised. Walk around a small town marina sometime. You have the rich assholes but you also have 75 year olds who move their boat once a year, if that, and struggle to pay shore fees and maintenance on a fixed income.
  Not much different from a trailer park.
- Given his record, I actually believe Bernie when he says this.
The age of man is over. The age of the orca has begun.
I'm on team Orca. One less rich fucks yacht taking up space.
- I am also Team Orca. It's their sea after all, and we're fucking it up.
- I don't know who you consider a rich fuck but a yacht like this cost maybe $70k. It's not much different than owning a car.
  
  Shit, I hadn't thought of that, the poor, poor people who can afford $70,000 recreation craft. Won't someone think of the sailboat owners.
  
  And everyone has a $70k car, right?
  The people in here defending private sailboats like it’s something anyone can do is insane.
  Yeah let me just go out and drop $70k on a thing I use a few times a year in the water. Nothing rich-person about that…
  
  Yes it’s just like owning a car! Which we primarily use to get to work and earn money to pay for the car!!! What do you do in a boat???? Oh ya!!! Not working and scoot around all day. Must be nice!
  
  I doubt the cost of owning a thing end with the price of purchase. At least for boat you have to park it somewhere, maintenance for a yacht probably gonna cost a lot because it's specialised. That's why it's usually for people with a lot of extra money to own one.
  
  The initial cost of a boat is like 1% of what the person ends up spending to maintain it.
  There is a reason why people say that boats are, "a hole in the water to throw your money into"
  
  The real class war will be between people who ate yesterday and people who did not eat yesterday. I’m pretty sure there’s some food on that boat.
  
  My car cost €8000, and that's also about the budget I have for a boat.
I love orcas
"Attack" or "Fender bender oopsie"?
Yeah but no dead humans
- Orcas have almost never killed humans in recorded history. The recorded cases were either jailed orcas, or mistaken identity. There are however many documented cases of orcas offering catch to humans, and behavior like that. They "kill" boats, not humans.
- As soon as there are dead humans, there will be dead orcas. Smart whales play it safe.
  
  Orcas know not to leave witnesses if they do.
  Those boats know what they did. I presume scraped some of their pod with propeller or something, they are revenging themselves.

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