Orcas sunk another boat and sailors are resorting to some very weird and wild ways to save their yachts

Mon, 11/13/2023 - 15:22

The fin and head of a killer whale surface on the foreground between two small boats with forested mountains behind them. — An orca slightly breaches the water between two boats in Alaska.
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Orcas have been ramming, damaging, and sometimes sinking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar.
From fog horns to bottles of urine, sailors are trying some wild ways to save their yachts.
Some techniques are more successful than others.

Late last month, orcas sank another yacht. The "Grazie Mamma II" was sailing off the coast of Spain and Morocco when a pod of orcas zoomed up and started attacking its steering fin for 45 minutes, Insider reported.