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On December 24, 2009, 29-year-old Alexis Martínez died during a rehearsal for a Christmas Day show at Loro Parque in Spain. The 14-year-old male orca Keto, who was born at SeaWorld Orlando Florida, rammed Martínez in the chest, rendering him unconscious. Martínez drowned before fellow trainers could rescue him.
Tilikum was the largest orca in captivity. [8] He measured 22.5 feet (6.9 m) long and weighed about 12,500 pounds (5,700 kg). [9] His pectoral fins were 7 feet (2.1 m) long, his fluke curled under, and his 6.5-foot-tall (2.0 m) dorsal fin was collapsed completely to his left side.
Iberian orca attacks. Beginning in 2020, a subpopulation of orcas (Orcinus orca) began ramming boats and attacking their rudders in waters off the Iberian Peninsula. The behaviour has generally been directed towards slow-moving, medium-sized sailboats in the Strait of Gibraltar and off the Portuguese, Moroccan and Galician coasts.
Atlantic bluefin tuna are tough prey: They swim faster than orcas and grow up to 13 feet long. In a paper published this month in the scientific journal Ocean and Coastal Management, the ...
The Miami Seaquarium has been criticized for the small size of the tank holding their sole killer whale, Lolita, which is less than two of her body lengths wide at any point. [80] The tank used by Marineland of Canada for Kiska was an estimated 40 metres (130 ft) x 20 metres (66 ft) wide. Kiska would complete 879 laps around her tank every day ...
Five whale sharks were rescued by divers after they were found trapped in fishing nets in ocean waters off Indonesia. Emil Rued, a Danish sailor who shared video of the heroic rescue, said the ...
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 18.8 m (61.7 ft). [ 8 ] The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the most massive living non-cetacean animal.
Unconfirmed. This victim fell overboard and was killed by a shark while swimming in Pensacola Bay, Santa Rosa County, Florida. John Bloomquist. September 23, 1911. Unconfirmed, probably a bull shark. Bloomquist was killed by a shark in the Galveston, Texas, ship channel after he jumped overboard to rescue a companion.