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The rate of orca-boat interactions and their dispersal prompted the formation in August 2020 of a working group for the issue, the Atlantic Orca Working Group (Grupo de Trabajo Orca Atlántica; GTOA). [1] A Facebook group, Orca Attack Reports, was created to facilitate the sharing of information about the interactions. [24]
Avare is a free open source "moving map" aviation GPS, A/FD and EFB app for phones or tablets using the Android Operating System.The app uses any internal Android or compatible external GPS receiver to determine location, allowing real-time display of location, heading, speed, distance, time, and altitude on free U.S. FAA IFR or VFR aviation charts; or on select topographic charts.
The app was made available for download from Samsung's Galaxy App Store on 8 October 2014. [15] It was simultaneously launched for the Samsung Gear S smartwatch. [ 16 ] The first public release of the beta Here app (across all Android platforms) was on 21 October 2014, as an APK download from the HERE.com Web site. [ 17 ]
As orcas have repeatedly rammed boats in waters off the Iberian Peninsula, experts who study the killer whales' behavior on the other side of the world believe aggression is likely not to blame ...
More than 250 boats have been damaged by orcas since 2020, with 15 of Iberia’s orcas believed to be responsible Orca boat rammings in the Mediterranean are ‘just playful fad’ scientists say ...
There are anecdotal reports that, c. 1955, an Inuit man fell prey to an orca entrapped by ice in Grand Suttie Bay (Foxe Basin, Canada). A pod of orcas (likely 10-12 animals) was trapped in a polynya, and a young man visited the site in spite of advice from elders to wait until the ice was strong enough. Two Inuit elders stated to a research ...
Though the "orca wars" reference a fictional battle between human and killer whale, many online have taken their allegiances seriously, posting about being team orca or team human.
Dougal Robertson (1924–1992) was a Scottish author and sailor who with his family survived being adrift at sea after their schooner was holed by a pod of orcas in 1972, one of the few documented orca attacks in the Pacific.