Can't you tell the difference?!
Posted on 09/19/2020 6:28:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
SCIENTISTS have been left confused by a series of incidents in which killer whales have hit sailing boats along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
In some cases, boats have been damaged and at least one crew member suffered bruising from the impact of the ramming.
Two boats also lost parts of their rudders due to the impact of the attacks, according to reports.
Incidents have been reported in several locations, including one just off A Coruña, on the northern coast of Spain, on Friday afternoon.
Pete Green, managing director of Halcyon Yachts, told The Guardian a boat was being taken to the UK when an orca rammed its stern at least 15 times.
As a consequence of the impact, the vessel lost steering and was towed into port to assess damage.
A similar incident happened near Vigo, northwest Spain, at the end of August, when sailors alerted the coastguard to say their boat was “under attack” from killer whales.
On the same day, a Spanish naval yacht, Mirfak, lost part of its rudder after an encounter with orcas under the stern.
On July 29, a boat was surrounded by nine orcas off Cape Trafalgar, in the south-west of Spain.
The killer whales rammed the hull for over one hour, spinning the boat 180 degrees, disabling the engine and breaking the rudder, as they communicated with loud whistling, The Guardian reports.
At that boat size, they could just tip you, or breach on top of you, game over.
I’ll bet that was a serious pucker factor!
“Whales “sleep” while still moving by turning off half of their brain,”
The opposite of the seclusive, rarely seen Biden Whale that turns off half it’s brain while awake.
May have something or is something to do with all the 6+ Mag Quakes (10<miles) in the Pacific Zone. It is well known that it (significant seismic activity) greatly disturbs aquatic species echolocation, not to mention any and all land-based creatures as far as disturbances in electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency increases.
Romans 8:22, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
This world, the Earth that God Created for mankind, fell due to the rebellion of Adam and Eve against God—seeking to be “as gods, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:5-8 Context: “And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”
Understand also, after The Flood in Noah’s time, all Created creatures then had the fear of man in them—and God warned him about it as they disembarked the Ark—although being carefully selected by God, each and every creature that He brought to board the Ark and then repopulate the earth—and they did so. It was up to Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives to either obey The LORD or reject Him as they also were instructed by The Almighty to increase and repopulate the entire earth. Mankind increased, but did not spread abroad the earth; they were of one speech and stayed together until God came down and confused their language at the Tower of Babel.
An opportunity to market a below-the-hull whale waking noise maker?-
I sailed across the Atlantic in 1976 on a 33’ wooden sloop. They had the paperback “Survive the Savage Sea” and I read it on the voyage. Near the Azores, we saw pods of sperm whales almost every day. Once, we sailed right through a pod, sperm whales in every direction.
We were very nervous, especially because the Azoreans hunted sperm whales using traditional wooden whaleboats launched from shore.
We were wondering if they had a collective anger toward small wooden boats. Any of them could have sunk us with one head ramming. This is one of the reasons I built a steel sailboat.
See 18 and 26 for the “why.”
#62, GMTA
Killer whales are revolting.
Yep, it’s not a mystery to sailors.
Sailboats on the ocean are so stealthy they’ve been rammed by submarine periscopes.
Steel sailboats don’t win races, but they are very comforting in the middle of the ocean.
Sometimes I lock my prop under sail, sometimes I let it freewheel in neutral. It makes plenty of underwater noise when freewheeling, if I had any idea whales were about, I’d freewheel it.
Hahahaha! Very good!
Can't you tell the difference?!
Can we assume these particular whales were all democrats? (small "d" intended)
LOL, good one. My favorite was one I saw last week.
First image is of a cloud with a strange cube-like shadow on one end. The text reads: Floridians find a strange cube-like object in a cloud.
The next image is a guy at a large calendar and he says: "Who had The Borg for September?"
Can't you tell the difference?
Depth charges?
Surplus market for salvaged SONAR?
It was a slobbering moment for sure. I’m glad I never read this thread before then.
I thought Killer Whales were mostly peaceful?!?
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