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orcas, also known as killer whales, appear to be ambushing boats off the coasts of Spain and Portugal.But now, a boat captain is speaking out, saying that after his boat was attacked for a second time he now thinks these groups of orcas know “exactly what they’re doing.”Captain Dan Kriz, a sailor with Reliance Yacht Management, had his first orca encounter in 2020.“I was sailing with my delivery crew through the Strait of Gibraltar delivering a yacht when I was surrounded with a pack of eight orcas, pushing the boat around for about an hour,” Kriz told Newsweek. “We were one of the first boats experiencing this very unusual orcas’ behaviour.”While the whales caused significant damage to the boat’s rudder, leaving them stranded and needing a tow to the nearest marina, a similar attack three years later has cemented his belief that orcas are now intentionally disrupting sea vessels.Kriz said that he was delivering a catamaran on April 15 of this year near the Canary Islands when he began to feel the boat being jostled by creatures below.“My first reaction was, ‘Please! Not again,’” Kriz told Newsweek.“First time (in 2020), we could hear them communicating under the boat,” the captain said.

uptick of orca attacks against boats off the Iberian peninsula that has garnered international headlines and a slew of theories.Wim Rutten, 72, first told Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant about the incident. He said he initially thought he was being tailed by a big dolphin on his solo sailing trip from the Shetland Island to Bergen, Norway.Rutten was fishing for mackerel off the back of his boat when he saw a black fin appear behind him.

Coast Salish Lummi Nation, Lolita the orca, the second-oldest orca in captivity, will be returned to her home waters in Puget Sound.The Miami Seaquarium, where Lolita has lived for 53 years, announced the planned relocation at a Thursday press conference along with parent The Dolphin Company, Florida non-profit Friends of Lolita and philanthropist Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts and main donor for the relocation.Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava was also in attendance and called the agreement “historic” and a great day for the city, the Miami Herald reported. Read more: ‘Baby boom’: Banner year for orcas, whales in B.C.’s Salish Sea The relocation is expected to take six to nine months and will cost between US$15 to $20 million.

Read more: Last captive walruses in Canada moved to new SeaWorld in Abu Dhabi Marineland’s owner, Marie Holer, declined to comment to The Canadian Press when reached by phone.The park told the Niagara Falls Review that the killer whale’s health declined recently “despite intensive interventions by her caregivers, Marineland’s veterinarian team and international veterinarians with expertise in supporting the health and well-being of cetaceans.”Kiska was believed to be 47 years old and had lived at Marineland since being captured in Icelandic waters in 1979.She was captured alongside Keiko, who became famous in the movie Free Willy, and the pair lived together for a few years at Marineland in the 1980s. Keiko was sold to an aquarium in Mexico in 1985 and eventually ended up at SeaWorld.Kiska appeared in shows at Marineland for years but has not performed for more than a decade.

A post shared by Frank Lin (@fylegend21)Lin and the others rushed to the waterfront and photographed a pod of five orcas breaching the surface repeatedly.Lin, 28, has had an Instagram account dedicated to wildlife images since 2016 but he says he’s never seen orcas breaching in Vancouver’s urban waters before.Andrew Trites, director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit of the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, says the whales seen by Lin were transient orcas and he believes their appearance near Vancouver will become more frequent.Trites says the last few decades have seen a rise in the population of harbour seals, many of which gather in waters near Stanley Park.A post shared by Frank Lin (@fylegend21)He says harbour seals are one of the transient orcas’ prime food sources and pods are increasingly drawn to the seals in Vancouver’s waters.Trites says boaters need to “keep their eyes open” to avoid a catastrophic collision as orcas appear more frequently in crowded waterways.Lin says his team was “stunned” by the Feb.

Marathon of mourning ends for mother orca, seen without dead calf for first time in weeks “We first saw J35 and her son J47 off by themselves away from the main group, then as we watched we quickly realized that there was a very small fin tucked in next to them,” said Sarah McCullagh, a naturalist and captain with San Juan Safaris in a statement.“I was obviously elated, so excited for J35 after the incredible loss she suffered a couple of years ago, but also for the Southern Resident community as a whole.

‘Quieter ocean’ from COVID-19 could be a boon to endangered orcas, say researchers A paper published last month in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America said there has been about a 30 per cent decrease commercial shipping traffic into the Port of Vancouver from China due to COVID-19 in just the first four months of the year.Dewey said it’s not just commercial traffic that’s gone down — there’s also been a pause in whale watching boats, cruise ships, recreational vessels and tankers.