A British-owned yacht immobilized by a pod of orcas has found itself the latest victim of about 35 whales known to ram boats along the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast.
The alert reached the Spanish service via their British counterparts, who had relayed on the distress call, the Spanish service said. A helicopter and a rescue boat were deployed to help the damaged boat to dock in Barbate.
But the Atlantic Orca Working Group, a team of Spanish and Portuguese marine life researchers who study killer whales near the Iberia Peninsula, says that these incidents were first reported three years ago. In 2020, the group registered 52 such events, some of which resulted in damaged rudders. That increased to 197 in 2021 and to 207 in 2022.
The killer whales seem to be targeting boats in a wide arc covering the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, from the waters near the Strait of Gibraltar toAccording to the group, these killer whales are a small group of about 35 whales that spend most of the year near the Iberian coast in pursuit of red tuna. The so-called Iberian orcas average from five to 16–21 feet in length, compared to the orcas of Antarctica which can reach 29½ feet.
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