Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack
Submitted 5 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to science@mander.xyz
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
metaStatic@kbin.social 5 months ago
"Orcas where using that elementary school to attack boats, it was self defense."
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 5 months ago
Sadly, if this keeps up people are just going to start killing them in self defense if an attack starts.
This is the only reason I'm hesitant to cheer for the Orca uprising.
Laticauda@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The public outrage would be pretty big if they just started killing orcas.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You want radicalized orca suicide bombers? This is how you get radicalized orca suicide bombers.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If they killed them because their ship was under attack and they feared for their lives after 4 past sinkings and no navy nearby to help, I’m pretty sure people would find it reasonable.
It took 45minutes, that’s long enough to get videos, call for help, maybe try to scare them off and then start harpooning them.
arin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What do you think the orcas are doing?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fighting a losing battle.
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Huh this sounds eerily familiar
grue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
From another article on the same incident:
Grazie Mamma was a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 449 measuring just over 13 meters in length. This fits the general description of the vessels targeted by orcas off Spain: According to researchers, the attacks always target sailing yachts measuring less than 15 meters long, usually while under way.
That kind of boat is 45’ long (which is liveaboard-size for a family but still not much bigger than an RV), was at least six years old since they quit making them in 2017, and was worth somewhere between $150k and $250k. This one was was owned by a rental company, but it’s the kind of thing a middle-class family could afford if they decided to live on it full-time instead of owning a house.
Translation: although this wasn’t a “cheap” boat, it was also very much not the deservedly-sunk billionaire’s superyacht you were hoping for.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So you’re saying we need to genetically engineer larger orcas? How big are we talking, 700-800 meters long? Would it also be okay to shoehorn in the smarness gene that the sharks got in Deep Blue Sea? How about an invisibility gene, just for fun?
grue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe just switch from orcas to sperm whales.
FrigidAphelion@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Just go full Norse and make an orca big enough to start Fenrir’ing everything
Balinares@pawb.social 5 months ago
So you’re saying, let’s maybe not hurry to vote for the Orcas Sinking People’s Boats party? That’s probably good advice actually.
Fungah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know what you have against the orcas sinking boats. Classic liberal propaganda, what’s this world coming to when orcas can’t even sink boats? I won’t be a sheep like you, the orcas day they don’t even sink boats and let me make up my own mind so Im voting for them.
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s quite sad. Sailboats are probably one of the most benign transportation and recreation vessels imaginable. Beautiful boats enjoyed by passionate and adventurous people.
cuibono@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Someone needs to just point these orcas in the right direction
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Despite receiving aid from the Moroccan Navy and being towed toward safety, the boat eventually sank as it entered the port of Tanger-Med in Morocco. All passengers were safely evacuated to rescue boats before the ship sank.
shroomaroomboom@kbin.social 5 months ago
Well I'd be pissed off too if someone visited my home preceded to shit all over it.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 months ago
Nice.
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
No, closer to Tangiers.
sic_1@feddit.de 5 months ago
slow clap
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nobody@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This was not some rich asshole’s yacht, but a chartered sailboat full of tourists.
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They are also killing sharks in South Africa. So it’s not just humans they are pissed off at. Wonder why they are so angry.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They always kill sharks though. That’s totally apples & oranges.
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh, the article mentioned it like it was a big deal.
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
They’re ornery cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
They’ve been killing sharks since forever, that is not news
glitch1985@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We keep taking their habitat away for urban sprawl.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah we need to stop building our cities in the ocean!
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Nature is fighting back
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We’re healing
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
No “we” are not. You think orcas will take down freighters or cruiseliners?
This is interesting for sure, but nothing about nature “fighting back”
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Watching sea lions die from being caught in fishing nets while their mother cries watching them drown.
Get them all Orca friends. Whatever we can’t get because it can’t be fished, we’ll survive.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Orcas would be all for that actually. They’re pretty cruel to their food and they eat sea lions. Including the babies.
1984@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Humans should never point fingers, we are the cruelest by any measure.
oce@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Some part of a group does bad things so let’s support attacking random members of that group.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
They’re evolving…
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
They know…
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
sederx@programming.dev 5 months ago
nice
Resol@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They made a Polish boat sink near Morocco as well.
Orcas really hate boats.
AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.it 5 months ago
“A human was killed in Oceania” Or better “Something happened somewhere”
Europe is quite vague.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They DO say it’s southwestern Europe, where 90% of these stories have been coming from. You could just open the article and have read that instead of posting this stupid shit. It’s actually pretty good and isn’t even paywalled! You’d have known that if you did the bare minimum.
AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.it 5 months ago
I’m complaining about the title. They could have said near Morocco or south of spain or whatever. But putting just europe in the title is too generic.
avater@lemmy.world 5 months ago
had anybody The Swarm on their 2024 apocalyptic bingo?
Tat@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
find it fucking cool that orcas are so smart and learn how to attack these boats from each other
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
So basically what you’re saying is some Orcas saw a Miyazaki movie too many, amd said “yes. YES. that.”?
set_secret@lemmy.world 5 months ago
but do they eat the humans after they sink the boat?
Spendrill@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Halloween: The Orcanning
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Gottem
satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought it was smaller boats and not the super yachts we’re fantasizing about being sunk.
Syl@jlai.lu 5 months ago
otter@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The ocean community is fighting back
throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Orcanized crime
earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Otter 841? Is that you?
MamboGator@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Got a job for you, 841.
otter@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
meep
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah, so there you are… The one who stole my username before I could join Lemmy properly. 🤣🤌🏼 Well played, fellow mustelid 🤗
otter@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Probably the best family of animals, maybe we need a community for them 😄
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They’re on a different instance to you, so they didn’t steal your name. You could both have the same name if you’re on different instances.