Attacked by an Orca near A Coruna

[dom]

This thread is about why Orcas attack yachts.

The next can discuss why forumites attack Flying Geese!

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[FlyingGoose]

This thread is about why Orcas attack yachts.

The next can discuss why forumites attack Flying Geese!

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You have to think of the type of gentry that wear wax jackets and silly hats and go out blasting geese with guns , with-their elephant sized barrels.
Perhaps it is the need to feel superior ?

 

[FlyingGoose]

See what I mean.

FG, in #8 you identify the gender of the Orca, one imagines you looked at the Video.

It may not be scientific evidence that can be peer reviewed and earn an academic acolade, but it is clearly evidence of an orca ATTACKING - there can be no other description - a small vessel.

Of course rudders can break, that is not in dispute.

What you dispute is that these large marine mammals are damaging boats and biting rudders and keels.

It is clear that they are. Too many instances to ignore.

ALas you do not read the full thread ,no one is in doubt they are near the boats what is in dispute s the wording of attacking, I hope we have cleared that one up again

 

[FlyingGoose]

but woe betide anyone who upsets WWFG.

Is this another of your hidden insults , or some code for your followers ,
Cause I don’t get it , please expand your knowledge for us mere mortals to understand your great wisdom many thanks

 

[Buck Turgidson]

This thread is about why Orcas attack yachts.

The next can discuss why forumites attack Flying Geese!

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just inquisitive playing I guess.

 

[FlyingGoose]

just inquisitive playing I guess.

Good to see you’re on board with the scientific community

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Good to see your on board with the scientific community

you're

 

[dom]

just inquisitive playing I guess.

Possibly.
Personally I feel privileged to share the oceans with these magnificent creatures and as for busting the odd rudder, one can only marvel at their restraint given what we've done to their environment!

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Possibly.
Personally I feel privileged to share the oceans with these magnificent creatures and as for busting the odd rudder, one can only marvel at their restraint given what we've done to their environment!

Good for you. Very virtuous.

 

[FlyingGoose]

you're

My many thanks

 

[FlyingGoose]

Possibly.
Personally I feel privileged to share the oceans with these magnificent creatures and as for busting the odd rudder, one can only marvel at their restraint given what we've done to their environment!

Well said , and the total point , we sail on top of the sea , and expect that we should not be disturbed by those living there, yet we accept a mosquito or midge in its habitat the oceans are the last great wilderness , let’s keep that way for all to enjoy

 

[rotrax]

ALas you do not read the full thread ,no one is in doubt they are near the boats what is in dispute s the wording of attacking, I hope we have cleared that one up again

Yes, that is EXACTLY the difference.

Serious damage to boats, toothmarks on keels and rudders, broken rudders, on several vessels.

I'll concede they might be playfuly attacking - but they are still attacking.

A Great White Shark has been seen gently mouthing a dummy seal to see if, in fact, it WAS edible. Once it found it was not, it buggered off.

These particular Orca continue their attacks for a long time.

On something that clearly is not edible - or perhaps shaggable..............................

 

[25931]

There is an article in today's Correio da manhã which supports the idea that the three young orcas responsible for the damage were only playing and suggests turning off the motor so that there is no noise and no prop turning, also to lock the rudder so that it can't be moved by the orca. The last paragraph says that they've been named Gladis Black, White and Grey by the marine biologists who are studying this group, all orcas have distinctive features - marks behind the dorsal fin.Two of them have scars presumably caused by propellors.
Orcas usually start appearing off the Algarve coast in early summer, moving along the coast following the tunny which are, unusually, still present on the west coast.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

So we know what our hosts thinks now ???

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

We were on Good Morning America today!

Skipper speaks out after encounter with aggressive pod of Orcas

Pete

 

[rotrax]

But its all bollox.

I know it is.

FG keeps telling me so........................

 

[25931]

But its all bollox.

I know it is.

FG keeps telling me so........................

Like most on here I have no personal experience but I have read quite a bit recently and given the matter some thought.
The encounters appear to be of short duration, perhaps no more than half an hour. Whilst I accept that this might appear a long time to those on board the question is why do they stop ? If they are playing they have had their fun and are hungry so go off hunting. If they are really attacking surely they are big and powerful enough for just one of them to do a lot more damage, and if several (weighing perhaps a ton apiece) launched themselves simultaneously and continued to do so ?

 

[Sharky34]

Apparently a pod of Orca's has decimated the Great White Shark population around Cape Town, so what is upsetting them?

 

[rotrax]

One must cosider the more common name for these splendid marine mammals.

It seems to have slipped my mind - what was it - I know!

They were, before these fabulous nature programmes, called "Killer Whales"...........................

 

[RAI]

Apparently a pod of Orca's has decimated the Great White Shark population around Cape Town, so what is upsetting them?

Maybe they are against our plastic pollution. So plastic boats are fair game.