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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]
A yacht sank after it was attacked by a pod of orcas for 45 minutes, a sailing company has said, marking the latest assault on a boat by the sea mammals this year.. Polish tour operator Morskie ...
Attacks by orcas, or killer whales, on boats in the Strait of Gibraltar are increasing. But why are these seemingly peaceful creatures becoming dangerous. Attacks by orcas, or killer whales, on ...
Killer whales have sunk yet another boat in southwestern Europe, marking the fourth such incident in the region in the last two years.. The latest attack saw a pod of orcas target a yacht in the ...
An attack on a strap-toothed whale. Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. There have been incidents where orcas were perceived to attack humans in the wild, but such attacks are less common than those by captive orcas. [1] In captivity, there have been several non-fatal and four fatal attacks on humans since the ...
A biologist thinks these attacks could be due to one orca's trauma. Orcas near the Iberian coast sank a third boat earlier this month. A biologist thinks these attacks could be due to one orca's ...
Orcas rammed a sailboat off the coast of northwestern Spain and damaged the vessel's rudder, prompting the maritime rescue service to tow the boat ashore, the service said on Monday.
A pod of killer whales bumped one of the boats in an endurance sailing race as it approached the Strait of Gibraltar, the latest encounter in what researchers say is a growing trend of sometimes ...