The orca uprising: Why killer whales are attacking boats
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The Orca's Attack Boats
Wim Rotten, a Dutch physicist and yachtsman was sailing solo between Shetland and Norway. He said the scariest thing was he could listen to the sound of it breathing before it came in for another pass to attack the boat. This behaviour amongst Orca's had been recorded first dozens and then hundreds of times. Sufficiently common since 2020 that scientific working groups have been set up to try to work out what's going on with killer whales.
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