Baggywrinkle
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This just popped up in my news feed .....
Orca bites off rudder ....
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chrishscorp
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Well i hope it gives it indigestion
Clancy Moped
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Wasn't this a delivery job that Halcyon of this parish did?
Sandy
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That is a very clean bite!
dom
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Fake news!!
An orca would have no chance against a skeg-hung rudder!
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An orca would have no chance against a skeg-hung rudder!
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Baggywrinkle
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They are obviously discerning orcas who prefer skeg-hung rudders to spades .... this may be the proof, one nibble and they left the spade alone ... ? ? ?
... perhaps the AWB didn't have a sea-kindly motion and obviously there were no sturdy handholds either for them to wrap their flippers round ... I mean if you want to bite the rudder off a yacht then you want it to be going slow and not bobbing around too much ???.
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Observations of how Orcas kill by Inuit show that one method is to disable the pray by biting the tail fins or other fins.
Prey items and predation behavior of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Nunavut, Canada based on Inuit hunter interviews
Incredible picture in the OP! The tangs must have been ripped off as well; powerful animals or tangs were shot before the attack.
Prey items and predation behavior of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Nunavut, Canada based on Inuit hunter interviews
Incredible picture in the OP! The tangs must have been ripped off as well; powerful animals or tangs were shot before the attack.
Quandary
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Must have had to do a lot of delicate chewing to strip the rudder from its shaft so neatly, very tidy job and as Bob says it separated the tangs as well, hope she spat those out, digesting GRP is hard work, probaby quite constipated for a day or two.
mjcoon
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The current ("18 September 2021") New Scientist has a full page article on the attacks (p17). I haven't read it yet.
claymore
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I recently had occasion to take morphine and then codeine to relieve the pain of my hip replacement operation. Quandary refers to the Orca possible suffering from the constipations. Well, let me tell you there are teethmarks in our bathroom door from the effects of constipation brought on by codeine. I wonder if I would have been similarly afflicted if I'd just bitten the rudder to relieve pain?
Minerva
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A modern spade rudder on a Beneteau being stronger than a Najad’s Skeg hung rudder!
I bet that will cause some consternation amongst a few on here!
Tradewinds
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Genuinely incredible!
dom
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OMG, not another skeg-hung rudder !!
And this one looks like a ‘surgical‘ strike ?
I bet Beneteau has trained these bloody whales!
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Zing
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anoccasionalyachtsman
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I think @BlowingOldBoots makes a good point. I really don't think that welds would have failed like that if they'd been in good condition.
Seven Spades
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It seems that the new advice is to engage reverse if being attacked.
kof
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Told you skegs were so yesterday. What they really needed was a dual spade setup where you always have a backup… oh wait.
this is an Amel 50 that was played with off Portugal. They could still steer and made it back to port in Spain and had the boat lifted. Amel installed two new rudders and a drive arm overnight and the boat splashed again the next day.
this is an Amel 50 that was played with off Portugal. They could still steer and made it back to port in Spain and had the boat lifted. Amel installed two new rudders and a drive arm overnight and the boat splashed again the next day.
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Zing
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Why the rudders always? Do they try the keels ever?
Might they be treating the boats as intruders? Do Orcas attack fish in this way, sharks or whales perhaps to drive them away?
Buck Turgidson
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Better late than never.
Two or three years teaching the Orca that boats are easy pray and don't fight back. So now they dominate them as shown above.
If 3 years ago the couple of juvies in the one pod that was doing this had been culled it would have saved a lot of time and probably a lot of pain for the orca.
Now they will get nipped by the spinning sharp thing that previously stopped spinning when they attacked. How long for them to unlearn their behaviour?
