A crew member who was on board a French vessel that sunk in November 1st said the whales lost interest when it started sinking. They were not interested in the people and they were also notinterested in the boat when it was sinking, he says. And this is not a proof that it's a play, but if you ask me as someone who has looked into a lot of the interactions between people and killer whales, I would say that there's been many many cases in the world where it would have been not unlikely that killer whales have reacted with a revenge motive or aggressionif they were inclined to do so.