Killer whales near the Iberian Peninsula have now attacked three boats, one of which sunk, and appear to be teaching their young there to do the same.
It’s a story that sounds kind of like the beginning of “Jaws” except orcas eat great white sharks so maybe it is just a new version of “Free Willy.”, killer whales near the Iberian Peninsula have now attacked three boats, one of which sunk, and appear to be teaching their young there to do the same.
“At first, I thought we had hit something, but then I quickly realized that it was orcas attacking the ship,” Werner Schaufelberger told Yacht. “The attacks were brutal. There were two smaller and one larger orca. The two little ones shook the rudder while the big one kept running and then rammed the ship from the side with full force.”
“The orcas are doing this on purpose,” Alfredo Lopez Fernandez, a representative with the Atlantic Orca Working Group reportedly said.
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