Se movilizó la LS Langosteira de #CruzRoja que lo remolcó hasta Cedeira pic.twitter.com/2lKKQMOQd5, Os mostramos otro vídeo grabado por el velero Urki I de madrugada. “They’re young males, they’re going to be rambunctious,” says Lori. “If you look at how they respond to one another when they’re in a pod or a group - there’s a seamlessness to their interaction.”. One sailor said that the attacks felt orchestrated, while another described it as if a sledgehammer had struck their boat. The scientists published their conclusions about the identity of the culprits, and immediately there were news reports of the “rogue pod” and the marauding “teenagers”. Orcas then dived under the craft before commencing to bump and spin the yachts. “I think there were six or seven animals, but it seemed like the juvenile ones - the smaller ones - were most active. Others will work together to hunt other, sometimes much larger, whales. She and the other researchers worry that these descriptions could be a step in a slippery journey towards persecution of critically endangered orcas. The pod that “invented” taking bluefin tuna from the fishing lines has increased in number. Velero Urki I informó a las 3.07h que estaba siendo atacado por un grupo de orcas; le rompieron el timón y solicitó remolque. The 2013 movie Blackfish made the case that Tilikum suffered mental trauma because of life in captivity, and that drove him to attack people. In September, the researchers started gathering evidence. “And this deafening noise as they communicated, whistling to each other. Killer whales have been “attacking” sailing boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, in encounters one mariner said felt “totally orchestrated” and another described as “like a sledgehammer”. Last year, a juvenile that he thinks is probably one of the same animals repeatedly chased his small boat with its face pushed up to the propeller of its outboard motor. The crew moved the boat closer to the coast - back within radio range. Renaud, though, does admit being frustrated and genuinely worried by the orcas’ behaviour. They are stealthy, they sneak up on their prey. “They can weigh 4-5 tonnes and when they play they really play,” says Renaud. Baffled scientists are trying to work out why killer whales seem to have declared war on Spanish fishing boats. Killer whales live, hunt and move in very closely connected family pods: tightly knit, matriarch-led groups that - in some populations - have even been shown to have their own pod-specific dialects. When the killer whales off the Spanish coast are chasing tuna, they can pursue them until the fish are exhausted. “I’ve seen them hunting,” says Renaud. So far, the researchers have not worked out which family “the three Gladises” belong to. And, as the bluefin gradually recovered, so did the killer whales. But the ongoing conservation crisis does not explain why some of them suddenly started to behave so bizarrely and apparently aggressively around boats. As top predators, aggression, dominance and shows of strength are likely to be key elements of any formative “play”. It quickly became apparent that they were much bigger than dolphins. The repeated thudding, unsettling as it was, was not David’s biggest fear. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, orcas were captured for display in marine parks and, to the delight of thousands of spectators, to perform tricks with a trainer. … But for David, the skipper who encountered the killer whales, the word “play” sits uncomfortably with what he felt that evening. A pod of orcas moving toward a boat in northern Spain Credit: Newsflash. Radioaviso en Rías Bajas por avistamiento de orcas en zona. “We make them into caricatures,” she says. An hour before sunset, one of the crew called out. The giant mammals traveled alongside the boat in San Sebastian Credit: Newsflash. The unprecedented attacks … Researchers have observed some orcas appearing to “celebrate” after a kill. The force that we experienced, it must have hurt them,” he says. They don’t just see the world, they hear it, echolocating and building a picture of their world based on a stream of visual and acoustic information that is all processed at the same time. Although the majority of orcas ignore boats at sea, there are a few in northern Spain that are apparently interested in ramming into them, setting off a string of questions and a bit of apprehension. That crew also reported the animals bit off part of the rudder. La emergencia sucedió 4 millas al NW de Cedeira #SeguridadNáuticapic.twitter.com/NbzjlZw0s3, Otro vídeo del ataque de las orcas al Urki I #SeguridadNáuticapic.twitter.com/unWxcr894j. Orcas each have a uniquely shaped pale grey saddle patch behind their dorsal fin, which from the surface serves as a killer whale “fingerprint”. Sailors were reporting orcas ramming their … “I just find it weird. Victoria Morris was on a 46-foot boat in Spain on July 29 when an orca attacked the vessel. Renaud worries that this could be a tipping point that could bring the animals into direct conflict with the fishermen, who may see their livelihoods as well as their safety on the line. It was so loud that we had to shout.”. 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On social media, amid gifs and jokes about the ocean fighting back, there were comments suggesting people on their yachts should “stay in their mansions” and that the orcas had been enlisted in a “fight against yacht owners”. Through his conservation research organisation, CIRCE, he carried out work that helped the animals garner their officially protected status. She and her colleagues scanned the brain of a deceased captive orca for a study back in 2004. In the past six months there have been at least 40 reported incidents involving orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. Ya han sufrido acometida un velero francés y otro de la Armada sin daños mayores #SeguridadNautica (foto no referida al caso) pic.twitter.com/QmHdxAKHKZ. Read about our approach to external linking. Most have taken place off Spain’s north-west coast, but six vessels were rammed by the mammals in the Straits of Gibraltar and five in Portuguese waters. It just seems to be something they really like and that’s it.”. “I don’t have the evidence yet,” he says, “but I would put my hand in the fire and say that this is the pod that the Gladises have come from.”. A ROGUE orca pod is carrying out revenge a ttacks on boats following a harpoon strike by poachers, an expert has warned. We call it an interaction.”. They’re capable of cruelty, they’re capable of kindness, they’re capable of all kinds of things just like humans. When they reached Gibraltar to carry out a more thorough check for damage, their boat became another piece of evidence in the ongoing investigation. “In some cases they can move the whole boat with it. However we describe it, and however human-centric our judgement, this nudging, biting and ramming of boats is new, potentially dangerous behaviour - both for people on boats and for the killer whales. By Elian Peltier Sept. 20, 2020 In this case, he was part of a team delivering a catamaran from France to Gibraltar. Neuroscientist Lori Marino, president of the Whale Sanctuary Project, is one of the few people to have seen inside the brain of a killer whale. The encounter is one of at least 40 similar incidents in the area. They were ramming the keel, there was this horrible echo, I thought they could capsize the boat,” Morris said. As the wheel spun back and forth, he thought the animals might be about to dislodge the rudder stock - a steering column through the hull of the boat. Behind international headlines about “rogue killer whales”, “orchestrated” orca attacks and the videos shared thousands of times on social media, there is a forensic marine science investigation that is still trying to work out what is driving these complex, intelligent and highly social marine mammals to behave in this way. For millennia they have pursued their favourite prey, bluefin tuna, as the fish migrate along the hundreds of miles of Portuguese and Spanish coast, and through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, to breed in warmer Mediterranean waters. 9. Later that same day, a Spanish naval yacht, Mirfak, lost part of its rudder after an encounter with orcas. “It was really scary for the people, I can understand that,” says Ruth. And don’t know why,” he sighs. In September, a man sailing his boat home to Scotland from Spain suddenly had the wheel spun out of his hands. In several attacks over the last couple of months, orcas have damaged boats and injured sailors. This website uses cookies. “They always seem to go for the rudder, and I think that’s because it’s a mobile part of the vessel,” Ruth explains. Her 46-foot boat was attacked in July, as a pugnacious pod of killer whales spun her boat 180 degrees and disabled the engine, causing it to drift into the Strait of Gibraltar shipping lanes where it had to wait an hour and a half for rescue. Some populations will only eat fish, preferring one particular type. Scientists and those who are used to sailing the Gibraltar Straits are baffled and concerned about recent attacks on boats in the area by pods (or possibly a particular pod) of orca, The Guardian reported. “So then we were just drifting. “They were right at the back of the boat.”. Life alone in a concrete pool certainly bears little to no resemblance to the natural existence of a wild orca. Michael thinks there is something fundamental about our mentality around big predators. Vessels warned not to approach and report any contact to authorities. Sailor Victoria Morris described what she dubbed an "orchestrated" attack by a group of nine orcas which surrounded her boat and rammed it for over an hour. ActuNautique - Yachting Art Killer whales attack a catamaran off the coast of A Coruna It led the Portuguese coastguard to ban small sailing vessels from a stretch of sea where some of the incidents had been reported. But there is a bigger reason for Ruth, Renaud and the team to try to adjust the language associated with these incidents. The investigation’s conclusions, the official advice for boats about how to avoid these potentially dangerous interactions - even the news stories - hinge on understanding what drives that animals’ behaviour. But to say that they are just cruel and calculating or that they are just rambunctious and playful, she adds, does them a disservice. A group of scientists investigating a spate of attacks by orcas on yachts off the coast of Spain in recent months has said their unprecedented behaviour may be a … © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2021. A marine investigation is ongoing into a spate of attacks by rogue Killer Whales on sailboats in the Atlantic. We see, in some of the videos, the sailing boat turning almost 180 degrees. Be as “uninteresting” as possible, they said. “I looked at this animal - and it was jet black and brilliant white.”. The UK’s Sun newspaper reported that a “rogue pod” was attacking boats “in REVENGE”. It is a situation playing out around the world. As David puts it: “They came to us, not the other way around.”. Groups of killer whales have been reported attacking boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal over the past few months, targeting sailboats from the Strait of Gibraltar in the southern Iberian peninsula to Galicia on Spain's northwestern Atlantic coast. Accounts of the incidents suggested that the animals were deliberately targeting sailing boats. Back in the mid-1990s, Renaud and his colleagues noticed that one of these orca pods had started to steal tuna from tuna boats, eating the bluefin from the end of longlines that trail in the water. News reports of orcas attacking boats off the coast of Spain emerged at the start of September, with encounters having started as early as July. The two scientists are now part of a group carrying out an informal investigation into this strange, potentially dangerous behaviour. The only other encounter he had had with an orca was more than 20 years ago in a Vancouver aquarium, but he was in no doubt that he was looking at a group of killer whales. Since killer whales learn from each other, the young animals in that pod learned the same trick. Think your friends would be interested? It is very likely that overfishing was a driver for these culturally conservative killer whales to develop a whole new predatory culture: seeking out lines to take fish from. It's not unusual to see killer whales in these Atlantic waters. “But these guys, they are playing,” he says of the recent encounters between orcas and boats. The duration for both incidents were similar, lasting for … “The real truth is not either one of those things. And the game is getting worse and worse.”. “From what I’m seeing, it’s mainly two of those guys [the Gladises] in particular that are just going crazy,” he says. Lori thinks we set ourselves up to misunderstand the species entirely by trying to lump their behaviour into simple categories like good or bad, aggressive or playful. Their survival remains precarious. Teeth marks were also found along the hull. Spain has suspended yachting off its north-west coast after a series of attacks by orcas ramming into sailing boats in the Atlantic. The wheel stopped spinning. Families generally stick closely together, with long-lived grandmothers helping to raise young and to teach youngsters to hunt. Procedía de Finisterre con destino a Gijón con 2 tripulantes españoles. Since July, multiple reports of attacks on sailboats by marauding pods of orca whales have been reported off Spain and Portugal’s shores, with injuries and significant damage reported, and the assaults showing no signs of abating. Footage of a pod of whales ‘attacking’ and damaging the Navy yacht went viral and sparked a warning from Spain’s sea rescue service, Salvamento Maritimo. Ruth says the language used in news stories and social media posts - even by the coastguard - has been adversarial and loaded. 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Several scientists think the killers of the deep are attacking yachts and boats due to injuries several of them sustained over the summer from rudders, according to The Guardian. I’ve seen them attacking sperm whales - that’s aggressive. A female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound west of Seattle. In late July, Morris was crewing a 46-ft delivery boat in Spain when nine orcas surrounded her. And they were behaving very strangely. “There could be an element of play, there could be an element of aggression - of trying to prove themselves.”. “I was definitely preparing to ask the Portuguese coastguard to send a helicopter to get us off.”. Killer whales have been carrying out revenge attacks on boats in Spain. Finally, after two hours, as unexpectedly as it started, it all went quiet. Renaud has seen signs of concerning behaviour whilst out on his own boat. A spate of attacks on boats by killer whales along the coast of Portugal and Spain have left ocean scientists baffled. They compared footage of the incidents to a catalogue of images captured and used by CIRCE to identify the animals. Have they seen mothers and grandmothers taking tuna from long lines and put their own adolescent spin on that family tradition? Conservationists campaigned against orca captivity for decades. Renaud and Ruth used to work together on orca research; Renaud has been studying this population of killer whales since the 1990s. While orcas were historically hunted and viewed by fishing communities as dangerous pests, the 1960s saw the beginning of what was arguably an equally dangerous fascination with the animals. This specific population of orcas is listed as critically endangered and protected by law. A killer whale broke the surface at the side of the boat and he says that for 45 minutes, the animals bashed and chewed at the rudder, spinning the boat around. “But we don’t want to call it an attack. I just thought people were scared and were misinterpreting what was happening.”. Over the past two months, orcas have damaged around a dozen boats off of Spain and Portugal, baffling marine biologists and sailors. La salvamar Betelgeuse remolca hacia A Coruña al último velero afectado por las acometidas de las orcas , el británico Aliana. Which brings us to a concerning development of orcas attacking boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal recently. Heavy boat traffic along the Iberian coastline and severe overfishing in the region may have caused additional stress to the animals, which are usually known to be more curious and playful than aggressive during encounters with humans. “These killer whales are always curious around boats, they will approach them,” she tells me. A group of rogue killer whales has been attacking boats off the coast of Spain and Portugal, and it is getting worse and worse, experts said. In September three orcas repeatedly rammed a sailing boat off the coast of Spain for 45 minutes as it traveled to Scotland. The boat was 20 miles (32.2km) off Porto, at least three hours from the Portuguese coast. The biological puzzle of why this is happening remains an important one to solve. Recently, killer whales - assumed to be the Gladises - rammed into two fishing boats off the Portuguese coast. “If they start behaving in a way we don’t like, then they’re mean, aggressive and evil,” he says. They seemed to be going for the rudder, the wheel would just start spinning really fast every time there was an impact.”. Killer whales have been ramming yachts and boats off the coast of Northern Spain and researchers are puzzled by their behavior. “And their ability to process information is orders of magnitude faster than ours,” she says. “We would be wrong to impose our sense of right and wrong on any other animal, let alone one with its own developed sense of culture.”. Despite this, some more recent behaviour is causing scientists genuine concern. The incidents were similar, commencing with a loss of steering and violent movements of the wheel/ helm, followed by whales breaking the surface near the boats. Orcas off the coast of Spain and Portugal have been ramming boats in what experts say is … But there is one conclusion the scientists have confidently drawn from their investigation and from their years of observing these killer whales: they were playing. Victor J Hernandez, author and naturalist, said an … Since July, experts have recorded over thirty attacks on small boats. “Parts of their brains - like the limbic system that you can think of as the emotional processor - they share with us,” she explains. “We can’t characterise them in one dimension. For some two hours, a group of killer whales rammed the underside of the 45ft (13.7m) yacht he was sailing off the coast of Portugal. According to The Guardian, over the last two months, several boats have been damaged as a result of attacks by orcas. By Peter Janssen September 14, 2020 Orcas, aka killer whales, have attacked several boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal in the past few months, and marine scientists are trying to figure out why. With their VHF radio out of range, they had to use the satellite phone to contact the coastguard, who advised them to switch off the motor and take down the sails. So orca behaviour that looks like anger, grief or joy is “probably exactly what they’re experiencing”. “Killer whales sighted in the Rias Bajas area. “When they hunt, you don’t hear or see them. Se solicita a embarcaciones que no intenten aproximarse, den amplio resguardo e informen. A mysterious spate of attacks by orca whales on boats off Spain's coast has prompted authorities to ban people setting sail from the country's northwestern tip. Reports of boats being attacked by killer whales along the coast of Spain and Portugal date back to July. And the number of “thefts” from the boats has also gone up. David’s job, since he “quit the rat race to sail” back in 2013, is to deliver new boats to where their owners want them moored. Then David noticed the lights of a fishing boat in the distance. Fellow sailor, 31-year-old Spaniard Alfonso Gomez-Jordana Martin, reported a similar experience less than a week prior, when a pod of four orcas attacked his 40-foot boat for over an hour and “nearly dislocated the helmsman’s shoulder and spun the whole yacht through 120 degrees.”. At one point, one of the larger animals came right to the stern and flipped onto its back – you could see its bright white underside.”. Groups of killer whales have been reported attacking boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal over the past few months, targeting sailboats from the Strait of Gibraltar in the southern Iberian peninsula to Galicia on Spain's northwestern Atlantic coast. But when killer whales play, it can be frightening. “It was continuous,” he says. Experts who study some of the most intractable human-wildlife conflicts in the world, where people may feel their lives are threatened by the proximity of large predators and that their only option is to kill them, have pointed to the role of “provocative language” in fuelling these situations. Killer whale pods have been attacking boats in Spain and Portugal since July (Credit: Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda) Killer whales, or orcas, are the largest members of the oceanic dolphin family. Ruth does not give much credence to the idea of vengeful orcas. That’s an important lesson to learn.”, Graphics: Gerry Fletcher, Rafael Fernández/Turmares Tarifa, Additional images: Alamy, The Anatomical Record, David Smith. “If that fractures, you’re really in trouble,” he says. All rights reserved. Spain's maritime rescue service uploaded video of fresh attacks Monday, sharing haunting footage of the killer whales toying with yet another victim. In both cases, crews remarked on the risk of injury in trying to keep control of the wheel. Forget Jaws — this time it’s personal … for orcas. Pods of orcas have been attacking boats, causing damage. There are no recorded accounts of an orca in the wild killing a human. An orca from the pod believed to be attacking sailboats off the coast of Spain this summer displays scars indicating a harpoon attack, in this shot taken by a whale-watching operation. In July, a sailing vessel had to be towed back to shore after a group of orcas repeatedly hit and damaged its rudder. But while I was on the phone I could hear them ramming the boat. A French sailboat and a Spanish Navy vessel were attacked but escaped without any major damage,” the Spanish Maritime Rescue posted on Twitter. “He said: ‘It looks like we have some large dolphins,’” recalls David. Later the same day, a Spanish naval yacht, Mirfak, lost part of its rudder after an encounter with a grouo of orcas under the stern in the Rias Baixas, as it was heading towards Baiona. Other species can be targets of their apparent boisterousness. In August, a French-flagged vessel radioed the coastguard to say it was “under attack” from killer whales. Her boat needed to be towed to safety as a result of the damage sustained in the attack, which included a destroyed rudder. “After about an hour, we were confident they’d left us.”. “I just didn’t believe it at all at first,” says Dr Ruth Esteban, a softly spoken marine scientist who chooses her words carefully, not keen to speculate about something as multi-faceted and complex as orca behaviour. A group of ‘rogue’ orcas who have been ramming boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal could be “playing”, according to experts. As investigations into the spate of attacks continue, Spanish authorities are warning sailors to keep their distance from orca pods. In the past six months there have been at least 40 reported incidents involving SAILING has been banned on a stretch of Spain’s northern coastline after killer whales badly battered boats in the area sparking fears for crew's safety. During the summer of 2020, the strangest of summers for so many of us, a group of killer whales off the coast of Spain and Portugal began to act very strangely indeed. “They love it. “They just play, play and play. “We put up the sail, with the idea that if things really went south, we would have another boat to jump onto.”. But one killer whale, a large male called Tilikum who spent most of his life at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, brought the issue global headlines when he was involved in the deaths of three people. 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