Radioaviso en Rías Bajas por avistamiento de orcas en zona. That’s an important lesson to learn.”, Graphics: Gerry Fletcher, Rafael Fernández/Turmares Tarifa, Additional images: Alamy, The Anatomical Record, David Smith. Later that same day, a Spanish naval yacht, Mirfak, lost part of its rudder after an encounter with orcas. Since summer, the sailors have reported that orcas … The duration for both incidents were similar, lasting for … The media coverage became stranger - and a little darker - when the scientists also revealed that Gladis white had quite a severe injury on his head: a gash that appeared to have been caused by a boat, possibly by a propeller. The biological puzzle of why this is happening remains an important one to solve. So far, the researchers have not worked out which family “the three Gladises” belong to. “We can’t characterise them in one dimension. The two scientists are now part of a group carrying out an informal investigation into this strange, potentially dangerous behaviour. But while I was on the phone I could hear them ramming the boat. “From what I’m seeing, it’s mainly two of those guys [the Gladises] in particular that are just going crazy,” he says. Pods of orcas have been attacking boats, causing damage. “But touching them and causing damage? 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. Think your friends would be interested? Velero Urki I informó a las 3.07h que estaba siendo atacado por un grupo de orcas; le rompieron el timón y solicitó remolque. In the past six months there have been at least 40 reported incidents involving orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. The boat was 20 miles (32.2km) off Porto, at least three hours from the Portuguese coast. “So then we were just drifting. In the past six months there have been at least 40 reported incidents involving It led the Portuguese coastguard to ban small sailing vessels from a stretch of sea where some of the incidents had been reported. Others will work together to hunt other, sometimes much larger, whales. Victor J Hernandez, author and naturalist, said an … ActuNautique - Yachting Art Killer whales attack a catamaran off the coast of A Coruna 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. “And this deafening noise as they communicated, whistling to each other. The encounter is one of at least 40 similar incidents in the area. “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.”. 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. Predators including leopards, tigers and wolves are embroiled in conflicts with humans that are putting their survival in question. “I don’t frighten easily and this was terrifying,” skipper David Smith recalls of a late evening in October when his boat was approached by what looked at first like dolphins. 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 … They were ramming the keel, there was this horrible echo, I thought they could capsize the boat,” Morris said. One sailor said that the attacks felt orchestrated, while another described it as if a sledgehammer had struck their boat. “I think there were six or seven animals, but it seemed like the juvenile ones - the smaller ones - were most active. 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. Other species can be targets of their apparent boisterousness. Many have tried. A marine investigation is ongoing into a spate of attacks by rogue Killer Whales on sailboats in the Atlantic. “Killer whales sighted in the Rias Bajas area. It quickly became apparent that they were much bigger than dolphins. “He said: ‘It looks like we have some large dolphins,’” recalls David. But the ongoing conservation crisis does not explain why some of them suddenly started to behave so bizarrely and apparently aggressively around boats. The crew moved the boat closer to the coast - back within radio range. The giant mammals traveled alongside the boat in San Sebastian Credit: Newsflash. As investigations into the spate of attacks continue, Spanish authorities are warning sailors to keep their distance from orca pods. “I’ve seen them hunting,” says Renaud. Males though will wander off, mixing and mating among other pods. “If that fractures, you’re really in trouble,” he says. “I looked at this animal - and it was jet black and brilliant white.”. Conservationists campaigned against orca captivity for decades. This photo and video line-up showed that three individuals were involved in most of the incidents: juvenile males named in the official orca record as black Gladis, white Gladis and grey Gladis. 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. Finally, after two hours, as unexpectedly as it started, it all went quiet. Humans’ relationship with these orcas though has been on a knife-edge ever since we started fishing for more of that highly prized and highly priced bluefin tuna than appears to have been sustainable. A video of that incident showed the crew trying to outrun the animals, which appeared to pursue the boat. And the number of “thefts” from the boats has also gone up. All rights reserved. As David puts it: “They came to us, not the other way around.”. “There could be an element of play, there could be an element of aggression - of trying to prove themselves.”. 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. 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. Renaud has seen signs of concerning behaviour whilst out on his own boat. Which brings us to a concerning development of orcas attacking boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal recently. Share this story! 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. When they reached Gibraltar to carry out a more thorough check for damage, their boat became another piece of evidence in the ongoing investigation. By Elian Peltier Sept. 20, 2020 Source:istock . They compared footage of the incidents to a catalogue of images captured and used by CIRCE to identify the animals. “Parts of their brains - like the limbic system that you can think of as the emotional processor - they share with us,” she explains. 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. Teeth marks were also found along the hull. We call it an interaction.”. Then David noticed the lights of a fishing boat in the distance. Over the past two months, orcas have damaged around a dozen boats off of Spain and Portugal, baffling marine biologists and sailors. 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. 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. In September three orcas repeatedly rammed a sailing boat off the coast of Spain for 45 minutes as it traveled to Scotland. “They love it. 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. 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. The first reported incident was back in July, the most recent at the end of October. Recently, killer whales - assumed to be the Gladises - rammed into two fishing boats off the Portuguese coast. “It was continuous,” he says. Baffled scientists are trying to work out why killer whales seem to have declared war on Spanish fishing boats. In this case, he was part of a team delivering a catamaran from France to Gibraltar. “When they hunt, you don’t hear or see them. “In some cases they can move the whole boat with it. “They were right at the back of the boat.”. “We put up the sail, with the idea that if things really went south, we would have another boat to jump onto.”. This specific population of orcas is listed as critically endangered and protected by law. The 2013 movie Blackfish made the case that Tilikum suffered mental trauma because of life in captivity, and that drove him to attack people. “I was definitely preparing to ask the Portuguese coastguard to send a helicopter to get us off.”. “The noise was really scary. It is a situation playing out around the world. She and the other researchers worry that these descriptions could be a step in a slippery journey towards persecution of critically endangered orcas. A pod of orcas moving toward a boat in northern Spain Credit: Newsflash. En pocas horas han sido 3 las embarcaciones dañadas pic.twitter.com/Brxllh45YU. The wheel stopped spinning. 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 unprecedented attacks … Her boat needed to be towed to safety as a result of the damage sustained in the attack, which included a destroyed rudder. A ROGUE orca pod is carrying out revenge a ttacks on boats following a harpoon strike by poachers, an expert has warned. In September, the researchers started gathering evidence. I just thought people were scared and were misinterpreting what was happening.”. Researchers have observed some orcas appearing to “celebrate” after a kill. Orcas each have a uniquely shaped pale grey saddle patch behind their dorsal fin, which from the surface serves as a killer whale “fingerprint”. “We make them into caricatures,” she says. The black and white orcas, the largest in … The repeated thudding, unsettling as it was, was not David’s biggest fear. Ruth says the language used in news stories and social media posts - even by the coastguard - has been adversarial and loaded. This revelation caused the headlines to kick up an anthropomorphic notch: killer whales were “orchestrating revenge attacks”, said the New York Post. Ruth now works at the Madeira Whale Museum, but she studied this population of orcas for six years - they were the subject of her PhD. Ruth does not give much credence to the idea of vengeful orcas. But has our overfishing pushed the younger orcas towards playing with boats? There are no recorded accounts of an orca in the wild killing a human. Vessels warned not to approach and report any contact to authorities. No human has been hurt in any of these incidents, and on the advice of the scientists, the coastguard has modified its language. We see, in some of the videos, the sailing boat turning almost 180 degrees. 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. While Renaud still rejects the idea of vengeful orcas - or even that the killer whales want to damage the boats at all - he cites decades of research when he suggests this could be part of a cultural shift that is actually helping the animals to survive. 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. Be as “uninteresting” as possible, they said. This website uses cookies. © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2021. Since July, experts have recorded over thirty attacks on small boats. 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.”. Renaud and Ruth used to work together on orca research; Renaud has been studying this population of killer whales since the 1990s. 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. And they were behaving very strangely. “It was really scary for the people, I can understand that,” says Ruth. “They always seem to go for the rudder, and I think that’s because it’s a mobile part of the vessel,” Ruth explains. Have they seen mothers and grandmothers taking tuna from long lines and put their own adolescent spin on that family tradition? Accounts of the incidents suggested that the animals were deliberately targeting sailing boats. They are stealthy, they sneak up on their prey. 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. And the game is getting worse and worse.”. 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. In September, a man sailing his boat home to Scotland from Spain suddenly had the wheel spun out of his hands. A group of ‘rogue’ orcas who have been ramming boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal could be “playing”, according to experts. According to The Guardian, over the last two months, several boats have been damaged as a result of attacks by orcas. 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. 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”. Victoria Morris was on a 46-foot boat in Spain on July 29 when an orca attacked the vessel. Killer whales orchestrating revenge attacks on boats off Spain Read RT Privacy policy to find out more. “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.”. “These killer whales are always curious around boats, they will approach them,” she tells me. That crew also reported the animals bit off part of the rudder. La salvamar Betelgeuse remolca hacia A Coruña al último velero afectado por las acometidas de las orcas , el británico Aliana. 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. I’ve seen them attacking sperm whales - that’s aggressive. Lori says humans cannot even be expected to imagine how killer whales experience the world. “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. The force that we experienced, it must have hurt them,” he says. Reports of boats being attacked by killer whales along the coast of Spain and Portugal date back to July. 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. Multiple injuries have been reported, as well as significant damage inflicted on sailboats, many of which required rescue and had to be towed to shore for repairs. A sense of curiosity and excitement very quickly turned to fear when one orca disappeared beneath the boat and there was a loud thumping sound from the hull. 9. 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. Renaud, though, does admit being frustrated and genuinely worried by the orcas’ behaviour. In both cases, crews remarked on the risk of injury in trying to keep control of the wheel. “The real truth is not either one of those things. But there is a bigger reason for Ruth, Renaud and the team to try to adjust the language associated with these incidents. Forget Jaws — this time it’s personal … for orcas. 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. “They’re young males, they’re going to be rambunctious,” says Lori. An hour before sunset, one of the crew called out. No sound for five minutes, then nothing for 10. Read about our approach to external linking. “I've seen these orcas grow from babies, I know their life stories, I've never seen or heard of attacks,” University of Seville marine biologist Rocio Espada said. The first reported incident was back in July, the most recent at the end of October. 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. The animals live, migrate and socialise in closely connected family groups that have developed different hunting techniques and modes of communication. 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. It was so loud that we had to shout.”. 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A spate of attacks on boats by killer whales along the coast of Portugal and Spain have left ocean scientists baffled. “They just play, play and play. But for David, the skipper who encountered the killer whales, the word “play” sits uncomfortably with what he felt that evening. 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. “It’s getting worse and worse,” says Dr Renaud de Stephanis, another biologist involved in the investigation. Three orcas rammed a boat off the coast of Spain as it was travelling to Scotland. There are published accounts of the animals smacking seabirds with their flippers and repeatedly catching and releasing them in their mouths. “If they see that they have the power to move something really big, maybe that’s really impressive for them.”. A French sailboat and a Spanish Navy vessel were attacked but escaped without any major damage,” the Spanish Maritime Rescue posted on Twitter. Michael thinks there is something fundamental about our mentality around big predators. Sailors were reporting orcas ramming their … Orcas then dived under the craft before commencing to bump and spin the yachts. 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. Families generally stick closely together, with long-lived grandmothers helping to raise young and to teach youngsters to hunt. When the killer whales off the Spanish coast are chasing tuna, they can pursue them until the fish are exhausted. In July, a sailing vessel had to be towed back to shore after a group of orcas repeatedly hit and damaged its rudder. 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. 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. “I just find it weird. “They can weigh 4-5 tonnes and when they play they really play,” says Renaud. “But we don’t want to call it an attack. They’re capable of cruelty, they’re capable of kindness, they’re capable of all kinds of things just like humans. She and her colleagues scanned the brain of a deceased captive orca for a study back in 2004. In 2010, international regulators slashed the annual catch that was permitted in the Mediterranean Sea. As the light faded, the reverberating thuds from beneath the boat continued. 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. Some 60 killer whales live in these waters today, that dipped to just 39 back in 2011, a decline that the Spanish conservation organisation CIRCE found was driven by a crash in bluefin tuna stocks. 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. 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. Orcas off the coast of Spain and Portugal have been ramming boats in what experts say is … Their survival remains precarious. The pod that “invented” taking bluefin tuna from the fishing lines has increased in number. And, as the bluefin gradually recovered, so did the killer whales. 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