What happens to the Orcas?

The dolphin is reputed to be very intelligent but the orcas are not far behind, in terms of intelligence and social organization to create families and create bonds between them, but something strange has been happening with the orcas for about three years a group of them has taken the strange habit of aggressively approaching ships in the Strait of Gibraltar and on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula up to Galicia, at the moment there are more than 500 incidents and three ships or ships sunk.

When I talk about ships or boats, I am talking about sailboats with small boats, not large ships, it seems that they do not want to destroy the ship but rather damage it and this is what the experts say because there have been cases in which they have attacked boats of only a few meters and those could have easily been sunk by an orca, you can see that it is quite a large animal.

To find out the reasons for these attacks, at the end of 2021, a group promoted by the government was created. At first it was thought that it was a family of three or four Orcas that were moving along the coast, but it seems that there are several groups of Orca families that do the same, and although their route is usually to go after the tuna, the tuna banks, which are their main food, it is not known at this time if these attacks are made to defend their fishing territory or for some other reason. strange reason.

The data handled by the working group created on this phenomenon in 2020 were only three orcas involved, the experts even knew the name of each of them, they had named those three, but now it is believed that there are already 14, these Attacks can occur 11 miles from the coast, which is quite close to the area where orcas usually go.

The tactic of the attacks consists of the gallows biting the rudder and tearing it off, if a ship is the same size as the gallows it shakes them, as if it were a piece of paper when tearing off the rudder and here is the serious problem, it can open a crack In the boat, the water enters and the boat ends up sinking, as happened to three boats at the moment. It seems that this behavior began in the area of the Strait of Gibraltar and is now rising up the Atlantic coast.

The fear that these cetaceans will attack the boats is causing panic in nautical tourism and has decreased exponentially, what to do in case of conflict with a gallows, because what the experts recommend is that to begin with remember that the name of killer whales is due to their aggressiveness when attacking whales and other animals, not for attacking humans, there are no known cases of orcas in the wild attacking humans, he clarified the issue of freedom because attacks by killer whales are something very different. orcas that are locked up, such as what happened in 2010 with the death of a trainer in Orlando Florida.

It is believed that these locked up animals were deranged by years of confinement, in freedom I already say that no attack on humans is known, the experts recommend that yes, that in case an orca attacks your boat, stop the engine and leave the rudder to the way, that is to say that the boat is oriented to the current and the wind so that the gallows interprets that there is nothing alive in what it is attacking that does not move, it is not necessary to make the mistake of playing with them or of Charles eating because the game does not usually understand it well.

They also recommend keeping a low profile when on the deck of the boat to avoid attracting their attention and lastly they advise holding on tight to the boat in case the jib hits it and people end up losing their balance and falling into the water.

El grupo de trabajo que lleva esta investigación ha creado esta web, en esta web se informa sobre los incidentes con las orcas además, recomiendan evitar Navegar durante la noche y han creado un mapa de puntos calientes, zonas conflictivas donde es más fácil tener un incidente con una orca.

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