Orca attack

[lusitano]

Don,t know if pi**ing off a 4 ton Orca with a "Banger" is really a very sensible thing to do.
Thrown from a large fishing boat is one thing - from a small lightweight sailboat is quite another

 

[webcraft]

Don,t know if pi**ing off a 4 ton Orca with a "Banger" is really a very sensible thing to do.
Thrown from a large fishing boat is one thing - from a small lightweight sailboat is quite another

Reports suggest they bugger off smartish.

The idea that you mustn't piss them off while they are disabling your vessel is a bit defeatist.

- W

 

[john_morris_uk]

Don,t know if pi**ing off a 4 ton Orca with a "Banger" is really a very sensible thing to do.
Thrown from a large fishing boat is one thing - from a small lightweight sailboat is quite another

Word is that they HATE the noise and leave pronto. It doesn’t harm them but their underwater hearing might be ringing for a while.

 

[newtothis]

Word is that they HATE the noise and leave pronto. It doesn’t harm them but their underwater hearing might be ringing for a while.

Just an idle thought, but would it work to tow some random bits of junk metal, either so it can clatter together and make the noises the big fish don't like, or as something to distract them from the rudder?

 

[rotrax]

First Mate and I were on a charter Sport fishing boat out of Whale Island Harbour, Ilsamarada in the Florida Keys.

While catching Skipjack for bait we were bitten off several times by very large Porpoises. Estimated weight 3000 lbs.

The Skipper, the very well known Skip Bradeen, lit and threw several very loud sinking fireworks at them. The buggered off pretty quick and went elsewhere.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Here you go guys .
How Young Killer Whales Became Hooligans

 

[Beneteau381]

Word is that they HATE the noise and leave pronto. It doesn’t harm them but their underwater hearing might be ringing for a while.

My source says the fishermen chuck one in the oggin and they pixx off sharpish, dont like them at all!

 

[Beneteau381]

Word is that they HATE the noise and leave pronto. It doesn’t harm them but their underwater hearing might be ringing for a while.

But like bangers used to frighten off bears, guides dont shoot em, they use bangers, ive seen vids of them disappearing sharpish when they are set off. Doesnt antagonise them, they dont like them

 

[newtothis]

My cunning plan of taming a great white shark to escort my boat and fend off orcas appears to have some faults.
Drone footage captures orca whales chasing, stalking and eating great white sharks

 

[Graham376]

Orcas ram Swedish couple in boat off Portuguese coast - The Portugal News

 

[mainsail1]

The Orcas seem to have started attacking at night which as far as I can see was almost unheard of until last month.
They also seem to be moving South of Lisbon again.

 

[Kelpie]

The Orcas seem to have started attacking at night which as far as I can see was almost unheard of until last month.
They also seem to be moving South of Lisbon again.

Nothing new about night attacks.

 

[Wansworth]

Spanish authorities suggested not traveling at night as it made recovery more difficult……..about a moth ago

 

[[70521]]

Any evidence?

Any results from the CA research website on the number of passages that undertaken without incident?

To be honest it is an awful site to record your passage and I gave up. I wonder how many others have done the same. Faro to Falmouth back in August and we might have seen some type of whale about a mile off.

 

[[70521]]

Spanish authorities suggested not traveling at night as it made recovery more difficult……..about a moth ago

Are you sure it's not the Tourist Office trying to make sure people spent more in the rather good bars?

 

[capnsensible]

Whale meat again.

 

[Beneteau381]

The Orcas seem to have started attacking at night which as far as I can see was almost unheard of until last month.
They also seem to be moving South of Lisbon again.

Reports coming in first hand off my mates, Vilamoura mayday call two days ago

 

[LadyInBed]

They also seem to be moving South of Lisbon again.

They've heard that there's a Cat on the prowl! Answers to the name John. ?

 

[Clancy Moped]

Spanish authorities suggested not traveling at night as it made recovery more difficult……..about a moth ago

Moth attack?

 

[Slowtack]

Reports coming in first hand off my mates, Vilamoura mayday call two days ago

Has anybody tried using strobe lights suspended in the water to deter these guys?