Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar
Vessel measuring 15 metres in length sank after encounter with the animals, Spain’s maritime rescue service reports
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service has said, in the latest in a series of similar incidents involving the animals.
The vessel, Alboran Cognac, which measured 15 metres (49ft) in length and carried two people, encountered the highly social apex predators, also known as killer whales, at 9am local time on Sunday.
The passengers reported feeling sudden blows to the hull and rudder before the boat started taking on water. After alerting the rescue services, a nearby oil tanker took them onboard and transported them to Gibraltar. The yacht was left adrift and eventually sank.
The incident is the latest example of recurring orca rammings around the Gibraltar strait that separates Europe from Africa and off the Atlantic coast of Portugal and north-western Spain. Experts believe them to involve a subpopulation of about 15 individuals given the designation “Gladis”.
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Nature is healing
Evolution adapts to multiple problems at once.
A pod of orcas that vigorously defend their food supply, get to eat, and train their offspring to also defend their food supplies.
Orcas that don't, either die off, or adapt to a different food source.
Thus why climate change is becoming a problem as nature is adapting to food sources becoming less abundant.
and wildlife becoming unfriendly or inedible to adapt to the changes.
I hate it when wildlife becomes inedible
Can confirm, this wildlife is not sitting well.
My only worry with this is that we start hunting them to eradicate or at least contain a threat, like we do to most wild animals who could potentially, perhaps, maybe, harm a human intruding on their habitat and territory. Like wolves in europe, we carefully reintroduce them after almost eradicating them entirely, they do what wolves do and prey on some livestock here and there, and people immediately ask for them to be culled.
We have likely killed most of their normal food sources
That's basically the intro from The Swarm