Orca attack

[Never Grumble]

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1 boat with damaged rudder, 1 boat with water entry, source VHF 16
13/09/2025 12:30 Attack 38°34.233'N 9°17.680'W North of Cabo Espichel #orcas

There was an article in today's Daily Telegraph about this particular sinking

 

[ducked]

I would have thought the engine would have been heavier and pulled it down more level. There was a yacht that had rudder failure in the Pacific last year that seemed to sink pretty level. I still think its odd to see this boat go down bow first.

Fairly modern-looking boat, which I hear tend to have a lot of beam aft and be narrow and shallow forrard.

Maybe that general shape (I know nothing about this specific boat model), in combination with free water surging forward "piling up" and forcing the relatively low buoyancy bows down might partly explain it?

If that were the case I might speculatively expect the bows to go down discontinuously in a series of small surges.

 

[dunedin]

I would have thought the engine would have been heavier and pulled it down more level. There was a yacht that had rudder failure in the Pacific last year that seemed to sink pretty level. I still think its odd to see this boat go down bow first.

Probably the direction the boat is sinking, via bow or stern, would not be high on the list of priorities for the crew as they prepare to leap into the sea or liferaft amongst active Orca !

 

[geem]

Probably the direction the boat is sinking, via bow or stern, would not be high on the list of priorities for the crew as they prepare to leap into the sea or liferaft amongst active Orca !

I agree, I was just interested to know if there was potentially other damage beside the rudder post hole. I cant imagine the orca breaching the hull unless they manged to put a large crack in it

 

[Bouba]

There was another orca attack off Portugal....however it was reported in the Telegraph....and I’m told that means it couldn’t possibly have happened
Orcas sink tourist boat off Portuguese coast

 

[Major_Clanger]

I agree, I was just interested to know if there was potentially other damage beside the rudder post hole. I cant imagine the orca breaching the hull unless they manged to put a large crack in it

An Orca could very easily breach a GRP hull if it wanted to. After all, one of the methods other pods use to kill larger whales is to ram them and break the ribs.

 

[Mistroma]

There was another orca attack off Portugal....however it was reported in the Telegraph....and I’m told that means it couldn’t possibly have happened
Orcas sink tourist boat off Portuguese coast

It's the same incident already mentioned in #2,727 and #2,730 with the same video clip.

 

[Bouba]

It's the same incident already mentioned in #2,727 and #2,730 with the same video clip.

I can’t be held responsible for that....most orcas look the same

 

[ducked]

....most orcas look the same

Thats the sort of innaccurate, dismissive, alienated, speciesist remark thats just begging to get its rudder bitten.

 

[Mistroma]

I can’t be held responsible for that....most orcas look the same

Sorry, I forgot you had a mobo and all sailing boats look the same to you as well.

 

[Bouba]

Sorry, I forgot you had a mobo and all sailing boats look the same to you as well.

No….but all yotties are wrinkly, old, naked men…so they look all the same

 

[Boathook]

No….but all yotties are wrinkly, old, naked men…so they look all the same

So you aren't old, wrinkly or possibly naked then

 

[Bouba]

So you aren't old, wrinkly or possibly naked then

I’m slightly old, slightly wrinkly and slightly naked

 

[Fr J Hackett]

For those that haven't seen Booba here's a photo of him

 

[KevinV]

For those that haven't seen Booba here's a photo of himView attachment 199570

If that's Booby, who's the fat bloke?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

If that's Booby, who's the fat bloke?

That is boobs

 

[Bouba]

For those that haven't seen Booba here's a photo of himView attachment 199570

In fact I am a melange .....I have the eyes of the guy in the foreground....the nose and mouth of the woman....and the forehead of the bloke in the background

 

[Fr J Hackett]

In fact I am a melange .....I have the eyes of the guy in the foreground....the nose and mouth of the woman....and the forehead of the bloke in the background

Except the forehead extends to the backhead

 

[Bouba]

Here’s a recent photograph....

 

[RAI]

The boat goes down nose first. I would have expected that if the rudder stock was ripped out and water was entering from the stern then the stern would start to go down. That's strange.

Maybe a powerful bilge pump in the engine bilge?