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Orc lives matter?
SJWs?
(Social Justice Whales?)
The murder hornets have been whispering to them.
Whale Wars?
Maybe they are staging a mostly peaceful climate change protest.
“Youths”
A swarm of killer hornets at the same time would be devastating.
They are going to need a bigger boat.
Is anyone there a marine biologist?
Obviously caused by anthropogenic global warming...
Climate Change
White Supremacists
It’s not unheard of.
Summary of a maritime classic, “Survive the Savage Sea.” This happened in the Pacific, not Atlantic.
“In June 1972, the 43-foor schooner Lucette was attacked by killer whales and sank in 60 seconds. What happened next is almost incredible. In an inflatable rubber raft, with a 9 foot fiberglass dinghy to tow it, Dougal Robertson and his family were miles from any shipping lanes. They had emergency rations for only three days and no maps, compass, or instruments of any kind. After their raft sank under them, they crammed themselves into their tiny dinghy.”
Their boat was wood, and the whales stove it in. My boat is 3/16” steel, and they will just get a headache.
Black Whales MATTER!
They’re angry at Japan?
Racist whales?
Coffee through my nose on that comment. Could 2020 get any more bizarre.
Whales “sleep” while still moving by turning off half of their brain, while still being on a commo frequency with the fully awake whales pacing it on either side, which may be 100s of yards apart.
The working assumption among ocean sailors is that sailing yachts, moving in silence on the ocean, sometimes strike and injure “half sleeping” whales.
BOOM! Waldo the whale has a concussion, broken ribs, and is bleeding. Other whales? WHO DID THAT!
That sailboat over there! Get that bastard! Look what it did to Waldo!
Vessels under motor power don’t do this, the whales are alerted by the engine noise and move out of their path.
Sailboats have also been hit by submarine periscopes and other above-water arrays, the subs being totally unaware of the presence of the silent sailboat.
Going back to the incident at 18: Once their wood yacht was sunk, and the human crew took to very flimsy rubber dinghies, the killer whales had no interest in them, or they’d have been easily killed and eaten.
It seems the Orca rage was directed at the boat, presumably for striking one of them, and not at their human crew.