{"id":1959272,"date":"2023-06-28T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pod-of-orcas-attack-racing-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:40:19","slug":"pod-of-orcas-attack-racing-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pod-of-orcas-attack-racing-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar\/","title":{"rendered":"Orcas attack yacht in Gibraltar Strait."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpod-of-orcas-attack-racing-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959272&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Pod of Killer Whales Attacks Yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar<\/h2>\n<p>They don\u2019t call them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/killer-whale-beaches-itself-dies-on-florida-coast-in-extremely-rare-occurrence\/\" title=\"Killer Whale Beaches Itself, Dies On Florida Coast In \u2018Extremely Rare\u2019 Occurrence\">killer whales<\/a> for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean Race\u2019s Team JAJO\u2019s yacht was <strong>attacked last week by a pod of orcas<\/strong> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pod-of-orcas-attack-racing-yacht-in-strait-of-gibraltar\/\" title=\"Orcas attack yacht in Gibraltar Strait.\">latest aggressive move<\/a> by the enormous whales.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Underwater video shot by a crew member shows the killer whales swimming up under the Dutch yacht, then speeding toward the rudders, ramming into them. At one point, a whale bites a rudder. The crew banged on the hull in an attempt to drive the whales off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-mets-player-suffers-multiple-fractures-after-being-hit-in-the-face-by-94-mph-fastball\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Mets\u2019 Player Suffers Multiple Fractures After Being Hit In The Face By 94 MPH Fastball\">scary moment<\/a>,\u201d Team JAJO skipper Jelmer van Beek said, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/24\/sport\/ocean-race-orca-pod-gibraltar-spt-intl\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThree orcas came straight at us and started hitting the rudders. Impressive to see the orcas, beautiful animals, but also a dangerous moment for us as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took down the sails and slowed down the boat as quickly as possible and luckily after a few attacks they went away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crew members of another yacht, the Mirpuri\/Trifork Racing team of Portugal, also said they encountered aggressive orcas, but they did not damage their boat.<\/p>\n<p>The pods of killer whales have been attacking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar for months now, with more than 20 incidents in May alone. Last month, the yacht Alboran Champagne was attacked by three orcas, which broke through the hull. The boat flooded, and the crew was forced to abandon ship, which was left adrift to sink.<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Gibraltar \u2014 an 8-mile-wide section corridor separating Europe from Africa \u2014 has been a hot spot of activity, with more than 500 interactions between orcas and boats in the past three years. Killer whales can swim up to 35 miles per hour, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/species\/killer-whale\">according<\/a> to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and an adult can weigh up to 11 tons and stretch more than 30 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>Several reports say a killer whale called Gladis is teaching other orcas to attack yachts and has already struck three boats, sinking two of them. \u201cResearchers believe that a female orca called White Gladis is seeking revenge after being traumatised by a collision with a boat, or being trapped in illegal fishing nets,\u201d one report said.<\/p>\n<p>Marine biologist Alfredo L\u00f3pez Fernandez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/orcas\/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">told<\/a><\/a> Live Science that Gladis suffered a \u201ccritical moment of agony.\u201d \u201cThat traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of physical contact with the boat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not interpret that the orcas are teaching the young, although the behavior has spread to the young vertically, simply by imitation, and later horizontally among them, because they consider it something important in their lives,\u201d L\u00f3pez Fernandez added.<\/p>\n<p>But others say younger whales are copying Gladis\u2019 attacks. \u201cA clearly larger matriarch was definitely around and was almost supervising,\u201d Stephen Bidwell, whose boat was attacked by a pod of orcas, <a href=\"https:\/\/12ft.io\/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fworld-news%2F2023%2F05%2F23%2Fkiller-whale-gladis-gang-orcas-sinking-yachts-gibraltar%2F\">told<\/a> the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an experience I will never forget,\u201d Bidwell said. \u201cI kept reminding myself we had a 22-ton boat made of steel, but seeing three of them coming at once, quickly and at pace with their fins out of the water was daunting.\u201d The attack lasted for more than an hour.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author:<\/h3>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean Race&#8217;s Team JAJO experienced a recent attack by a pod of killer whales. Underwater footage captured the moment when these enormous whales swam beneath the Dutch yacht and aggressively rammed into its rudders. 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