Kola
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Couple of long range Transients cruising down the middle of Tyee Marina, Tacoma, WA...
Orca attack
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Rappey
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People love animal videos, especially when the animals are just out to screw with you.
penfold
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Ockham says they're after fish that live in the marina; if the marina is like UK ones they're populated by large and slow moving bottom feeders, easy pickings for an Orca.
capnsensible
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sailaboutvic
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It be crabs next
penfold
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Watch out for aggressive sea squirts.
Laser310
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i saw on Face book something about a recent attack near La Linea - does anyone have any details on this attack?
laika
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Letter in the guardian today: is the author one of ours?
Boat-wrecking orcas are sadly no socialists | Letters
This is the effective way to challenge the graun: playful humour wrapped round a serious point. Any direct criticism of an opinion writer even if civil will get moderated out of comments, never mind published as a letter
Boat-wrecking orcas are sadly no socialists | Letters
This is the effective way to challenge the graun: playful humour wrapped round a serious point. Any direct criticism of an opinion writer even if civil will get moderated out of comments, never mind published as a letter
Lightwave395
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There's a report yesterday on a CA whatsapp group of an Orca attack off the French coast in the Les Sables area ?
Roberto
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Yes off Ile deYeu, plus another one 20nm from Glénan: a fishing boat approached the sailing boat and began throwing fish all around, which apparently appeased the animals appetite for rudders. No damages to the sailboat.
Barton Seagoon
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I was talking today to a neighbour in our marina (Ocean Quay in Southampton), who was on a yacht that got attacked by orcas while sailing up from the Med a week or two ago. (Sorry - I don't recall the exact location but could find out). He said they got rid of the attackers by using a loud noise under the water. They had a long metal tube, like a scaffold pole, suspended with the end in the water. Then they attacked the top end with an angle grinder, sending very loud distressing sound waves down the tube into the water. They had sustained some damage to the rudder but the attackers left quite quickly after they started the noise.
sailaboutvic
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Arrrr there the answer guys , carry a ton of fish to throw over board .
Wansworth
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No news of orcas off Galician coast yet
westhinder
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Do you have a source or a link for those? I can’t find anything
John_Silver
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The Orcinus app is showing two incidents and a sighting (11-12.7.23) west of Yeu and south of Belle Ile (where we are at the moment). So there looks to be a pod in the area…..
Roberto
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The Glénan one is the son (+ friend) of a Hisse et oh forumite;
father here:
Attaques d'Orques - 4
and son here:
This is the other one, no more details so a bit of question mark as to what happened
greeny
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Better to have rust spots all over the place than to lose the rudder I guess.
Lightwave395
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Came from the 'Vilaine Boatwatch' CA whatsapp group, apparently there have been sightings in the Biscay area
John_Silver
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The Glenan report is also on the Orca Attack Reports Facebook group.