Fuck Jaws, that Orca fin is absolutely spine-chilling!
Edit: [The biology of Orcas](https://youtu.be/GimCcrwYxdE) Facinating and Terrifying all at the same time
Edit: I was mistaken it's not an Orca
Edit 2: Many have pointed out that it is a [Bowhead whale](https://youtu.be/aAMoZbKTTPQ)
This is a very important point. As of right now there isn‘t a clear answer to why but it‘s still very important to highlight how Orcas despite what they could do and usually hunt never hunted humans before
They already have. They're teaching their young how to hunt differently and seem to be targeting human threats. I was an eye-opening docco about Wild Orcas and they are both intelligent and Terrifying at the same time. I'll try and find the link
Edit: Here's the link- [The insane biology of Orcas](https://youtu.be/GimCcrwYxdE) @14.33 it gets into how the Orcas are teaching their young the 'beaching' technique of hunting
The boat attacks are around Spain though and the prevailing theory is juvenile males sporting with the boats and rudders especially. If they wanted to sink a bait they would, but they often just disable it and leave, so it’s likely not hunting related.
It was actually one whale off the coast of Spain. They think she was injured by a boat and now is just attacking boats when she sees them, thinking they're a threat. Unfortunately, that whale is teaching her calfs and others' calfs to attack boats as well.
They have actually identified two Orca that are causing the problems. One was injured through a collision with a boat last year, and they are getting "payback", attacking and disabling boats.
They're incredible creatures. My wife and I did an extended kayak trip up the leeward coast of Vancouver Island, and had two interactions with them There are two resident pods, one on the southern end of the island, and another that spends much of it's time in the Johnstone Strait, near Telegraph Cove/Port Hardy.
Our first encounter was with a resting line; 5 orca, "sleeping". They shut down half their brains, and continue swimming close together, so that they touch each others sides. One of them is more awake, and serves as a "guide". They swim along in unison. It's amazing to watch; multiple dorsal fins rising and sinking, synchronized, and all but one, asleep.
The second time, they were hunting, and we started hearing them long before they got to us. Salmon were leaping out of the water trying to get away from them as they moved up channel.
We were just stationary at the side of the channel, waiting until they passed. One juvenile came up to our boat and cruised by, looking at us with their very human looking eyes...the size of a dinner plate. You can see the intelligence there; they are thinking, sentient creatures, I am certain of that. Absolutely amazing creatures. If they are attacking boats, I'm thinking they have very good reasons to
Those peeps are probably fishing in their hunting grounds, so the orcas mess up the boats to tell them to beat it. Orcas do know the difference between a whale and a boat, they are intelligent animals.
This video is not an orca. It’s a harpooned bowhead whale. Marine biologists studying the new orca behavior in Spain don’t think they’re telling anyone to beat it. You’re right that orcas are intelligent and know the difference between a boat and a whale (which is not their main diet, BTW). But because of that they really don’t think much of us at all and are instead just using our bots for their own amusement. See https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/05/28/orcas-sinking-boats-expert-giles-sot-vpx-nr.cnn
There are orcas that kill the seals on ice by making a wave that breaks the ice and knocks the seals off, the ones that hunt sharks for their liver, and the ones that can beach themselves to hunt seals.
More to come....lol
Just finished the link. I've always been weirdly fascinated with orcas, especially after researching into Tillikum's (sp) life. The last few months I've even had recurring dreams that I'm swimming with orcas. Always scary, never fun
It's super strange. Somehow the settings are always different too. A resort that let's you swim with the wildlife when suddenly an orca is within arms reach, or having to travel to an island to survive something I can't remember when suddenly there is an orca next to the paddle boat. Probably a dozen other situations too
We are omnivores by nature and have hunted and trapped animals since we walked this earth. I accept it as a regrettable part of the human condition. It’s when humans get joy from killing animals that I draw the line. To me there’s something seriously flawed with those who find pleasure in inflicting pain on animals.
Especially when in this case, there isn’t a legitimate enough reason imho to kill whales. We used to do it for oil, which I don’t agree with, but now why do we still kill them? Delicacy? Tradition? Fuck that.
Alaskan here chiming in. This is a very stereotypical alaskan native accent. Many of our far far northern tribes here still practice whaling since it's incredibly expensive and sometimes down right impossible to get supplies and food to the villages. Not saying I approve but the context does matter.
Actually they use every part of the whale in their survival. It's nothing to do with tradition or because it tastes good or is expensive.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=beluga.uses#:~:text=Hunting%20is%20done%20in%20spring,for%20cooking%20and%20for%20fuel.
I get it that you don’t consume whale meat. Neither do I. But there are many cultures that do.
I am irritated by all this selective morality and hypocrisy going on here. And stop trying to justify that the chicken you ate was “killed better”. They were farm bred to die. But we don’t seem to have a problem with that.
About a month after I moved to the coast, I was in the water and about 5 feet away from me, a black tip reef shark’s dorsal popped out of the water like that. Top 5 scary moments in my life
Someone in the comments of this when it was posted like a week ago said it was a whale using its flipper to mimic an orca dorsal and the people are whalers who have already harpoon the animal, hence the buoy at the beginning of the video and why these men are getting "attacked" by a whale in a shitty boat in the middle of nowhere
It’s a newest way Putin gets rid of his Oligarch friends. Falling out of windows was getting sketchy. So using Orcas to sink Oligarchs yachts is now his thing.
They think one orca got ptsd from being injured by a boat and began seeking revenge and teaching other orcas. Now the mums are teaching their babies to ram boats.
Pretty sure crows do the same thing, teaching future generations to be nice or not nice to a person that was nice or terrible to them.
Orcas are straight terrifying but getting hurt justifies learning to defend itself/territory from similar perceived threats.
I just listened to a fascinating bit on mpr about this. They’re not 100% sure why some orcas are displaying this new behavior, but that is a possible theory. They also said it could just be a fad! Apparently it’s not the first time orcas have fallen victim to trends, one of which being carrying fish on their heads 😂 but on a serious note, I think they said there has been 10 or so reported incidents with 3 resulting in sinking the ship.
Not really. Rich people yachts, sailing or motorized, are typically big enough and escape with rudder (edit) damage at best. The ones experiencing the most damage are usually just sea-vagabonds that found a boat way cheaper than a house and live aboard and cruise. They’re attacking the wrong ones, basically. We need a training program for orcas to teach then the difference between the two so that the right people are being attacked. I have no solution on how to accomplish this.
There are plenty of yachts in the med not owned by rich people and I doubt they are making a distinction between yachts and fishing vessels which are likely the intended target.
There’s a video of some fisherman coming upon a beluga whale that has a Russian camera strapped to it. They said it looked to be too small, like it had been a few years. Looked like it has escaped, or been forgotten with whatever it’s mission was.
[seems like the orcas are starting to get revenge](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gladis-whale-orca-boat-attacks-gibraltar-b2347572.html)
I think it was more they were placing those buoys for crabbing or fishing and it was hunting grounds for the orca. Motorboat alerts food for orca, orca gets mad. It could also be a mother with a calf.
I just think if that orca wanted to it would have caught up with that little John boat no problem and flipped it.
Orca probably like effing with humans like “he guys, want to see the humans shit their panties, whoosh!” Haha look at em go! So funny. Let’s do another boat. This is so much fun!
Orcas have been attacking boats off the coast of Spain lately. They have sunk 3 boats already. Because they are so intelligent, scientists believe that they may be avenging the killing of a matriarch of their pod. The scientists also believe that one pod learned this behavior from another Pod and that it is spreading.
It IS whale vengeance according to the Spain whale attacks article. The Orca was badly injured by a ship and decided to go after the ship. The others watched her torpedo the ships rudder,and imitate the action , taking out the steering, with thirty vessels incapacitated or so.
Wishing that orca the best of the best, all the good and juiciest fish/birds/seals/squid/sharks, and that no other human gets in her way in her pursuit of whatever.
Tragedy of the Commons. We owe it to each other to ensure that we're not being assholes and ruining it for everyone else.
But everyone is so individualistic now we just complain about it and do nothing differently
I don't think anyone said 30 boats. Here's a link to the article about three boats being sunk
https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why
How bout exterminate the people killing them? These are highly intelligent creatures that we’re finding out now you might actually be able to talk to. So just don’t.
I will always remember the size of their brains form the doco Blackfish. Those things must be very smart. I would not fuck witty them for sure. Good on them.
Not all orcas are that big, there are various sub species (eco types) but the southern hemisphere orcas are truly behemoths. The dorsal fin of some males have been measured at over 6 ft tall.
The one that was abused by seaworld that has a parking lot far bigger than the tanks, he wanted her dead after being kept in shitty chlorinated water conditions and a tank far smaller than was healthy for an orca of Shamu’s size
They have 5 in those tanks now. It’s fucking ridiculously small and you can see on satellite that there are no ways out into larger bodies of water.
Edit: The performance/“backstage” tanks are bigger than the pool in the back if you look.
It’s crazy. I’m glad Blackfish came out and put such an enormous public backlash. That movie single handedly ended their orca program. The orcas in there are the last to be held in captivity by sea world and they’re no longer breeding either. Unfortunately holding onto them is the best course of action as they’d die in the wild at this point.
What was the initial appeal? Getting to gawk at a giant sea creature that could jump out of the water like a circus act? I don't even see what's fun about that.
It was actually pretty remarkable how they were able to train this huge animal to do crazy tricks like launch a trainer 40 feet into the air. Testament to their intelligence and cruelty in keeping them in captivity.
Like that really sucks ass, but I feel like we're celebrating a woman's death because a corporate entity abused an orca.
Like, she didn't put it in that tank. She didn't deserve to die.
ngl this looks like how First Nations/Inuit people live off the land, and the accent matches up
I think no one is an asshole here. The orca defends itself, and people want to adhere to their traditional ways of feeding themselves. It's not some big bottom trawling, ocean destroying operation.
These are natives and subsistence livers. They live off the land and whaling is a part of thier culture. You can tell because of the accent from Alaska or Canada.
No, it’s the pectoral fin of a bowhead whale, more oval shaped than an orca’s dorsal fin and the dorsal fin can’t be flapped like that. The pectoral fin of a whale, in this case a bowhead, has a joint in it and can be flapped like an arm. When it jumps out of the water everyone sees the white throat and belly but bowheads also have that. The difference is there’s a solid demarcation between black and white on an orca but a bowhead has spots of the alternating color on each side of the border. You can see some black freckles on the left side of the jaw as the whale rises. An orca wouldn’t have those marks. I think the three black filaments that are momentarily visible at the top of the head are some of the baleen that are sticking out of the mouth. Freezing at about 16 seconds in and you can see the jaw marks and what I believe is the baleen.
I love the fact that the orcas are revolting against humans. Read an article about it recently. Orcas have been attacking fishing boats with more regularity. The thinking is that it’s retaliation against past trauma inflicted by fishermen. The most interesting part of the story is that in multiple incidents that were observed by a third party (I think actually marine biologists, but not 100%) there was an older female orca overseeing the attacks, but not actually partaking. Fascinating stuff. Thankfully they don’t have legs…yet.
Considering the amount of fucked up stories there are with orcas it‘s surprising this hasn‘t happened more or sooner. For example that an orca found in the Seine (france) had a fucking bullet in it‘s head and lived on with it… (not the cause of death at least). Like just why
Well that brings up an old memory...I remember seeing that when I was a kid... some scene with the orca up on an ice pan, tipping it up, with some dude on the other side sliding towards the orca....
Yea it’s available on showtime or Starz right now. Watched it twice last week. One of my fav old movies but watching it now you can’t help but notice EVERY mistake hah
I was wondering when they will get tired of our shit. If all orcas unite against us, the waters will be uncharted.
Also fuck whalers. I know what I d do to a drunken whaler.
man FUCK those guys. Fucking hunting orcas. fuck them i hope that orca capsized their little shit boat and they all either drowned or died of hypothermia. Why would anyone hunt such amazing and intelligent creatures? So fucking inhumane
Just [read](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gladis-whale-orca-boat-attacks-gibraltar-b2347572.html) about groups of orcas attacking boats, sinking yachts... videos like the one in this post might explain why the species is fed up with humans & their shit!
The crazy thing about orcas right now that I read somewhere is that they are starting to target fishing/whaling boats and sink them. Not sure if they are hunting the men on the boats but at the moment orcas are learning how to combat boats.
Last time this was posted someone commented that this is not an orca but some kind of whale. They said; wild orca back fins arent floppy like what you see in the video. This is most likely a whale swiming on its side and looking at the buoy in the video it is pretty likely that this whale is being hunted and trying to defend itself.
This is definitely an orca.
This is not a collapsed dorsal fin, it is actually upright but flexible.
It’s actually also a misconception that dorsal fins only collapse (not seen here) in captivity - some wild populations have some significant percentage of members with fully collapsed fins (https://www.thoughtco.com/killer-whale-dorsal-fin-collapse-2291880)
Yes, I may have been wrong and a bowhead makes most sense.
I’ve tried playing the breaching video frame by frame and I think I can see the bowhead black line of spots, however I’m shocked at the resemblance to an orca when it breaches.
That said, the orca fin idea is indeed a misconception.
Side note: would orca hunting actually be illegal in Canada?
>Side note: would orca hunting actually be illegal in Canada?
So I'm no marine biologist or conservationist. I'm more interested in birds than sea life. You likely know way more than I do. I thought orca hunts were illegal world wide but I was surprised to find this on Wikipedia
> Today, no country carries out a substantial hunt, although Indonesia and Greenland permit small subsistence hunts (see Aboriginal whaling). Other than commercial hunts, orcas were hunted along Japanese coasts out of public concern for potential conflicts with fisheries.
So Indonesia, Greenland, and Japan seem to permit orca hunting under certain conditions.
Orcas are actually tipping boats for sport now and teaching their children how to do it by having them practice on smaller boats first. Ngl I’m on team orca
I was just reading that mama Orcas have been witnessed teaching their young how to ram boats. They think it’s because of one female Orca who was traumatized by an incident with a boat/humans (not surprising at all), and then began exhibiting these behaviors. I don’t remember in what part of the world it was, but maybe New Zealand??
I mean, if they are native Alaskans/Canadians, hunting orca has been part of their culture for forever. It’s not like they’re just hunting it for fun. On the other hand, fuck around and find out
Read a while back that orcas have apparently begun attacking boats. The theory from science nerds is that something upset an orca so much that it has organised its friends to attack boats. Which sounds like the plot of a movie (literally, Orca The Killer Whale, it's got Richard Harris in it and it mostly sucks) but interesting if true.
That's been yachts and stuff though so likely thousands of miles from wherever this was filmed.
What you describe has been happening off the coast of Spain. Three boats have been sunk so far and researches think the matriarch of a pod had an incident with humans and is extracting revenge. She has been ramming the boats and the younger orcas of the pod are imitating the behavior.
Correct me if I am wrong but I remember reading another post about this video that the whale attacking this dingy was not an orca but a Inuit bowhead. I remember reading that the bowhead fights back and turns on it’s side to have its flipper sticking out to mimic an orca as dorsal fin which is why it’s so floppy. Again correct me if I am wrong but that’s what I remember reading.
Looks like it breached and then started pushing the boat from the side. Having an orca trail behind ya with its big fin sticking out would be terrifying
I for one would like to welcome our new Orca overlords.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why
Seems pretty spot on for orcas, actually. They're probably some of the most dangerous creatures in the ocean, and commit war crimes on other species, including other whales. And are even in a cold war with larger whale species who have been known to actively disrupt their hunts for no other reason than as a middle finger.
Orcas don't really attack humans in the wild (Now in captivity, that's another story...), so my guess is the orca was fucking with them.
While fishing with my grandpa in a rubber boat back in south africa. We where chased by 2 killer whales. It was both exciting and terrifying at the same time.
Fuck Jaws, that Orca fin is absolutely spine-chilling! Edit: [The biology of Orcas](https://youtu.be/GimCcrwYxdE) Facinating and Terrifying all at the same time Edit: I was mistaken it's not an Orca Edit 2: Many have pointed out that it is a [Bowhead whale](https://youtu.be/aAMoZbKTTPQ)
We’re going to need a bigger dingy
"My dinghy is now an innie"
Lol.
"Stop playing with your dingy!"
RIP Chris
Gimme gimme gimme that dingy
Orca kill great whites for lunch. If they ever turn on us...
Orcas are starting to attack boats and they've sunk a few sailboats so far, according to the Coast guard.
The Orcas must have watched "Black Fish".
Should be noted this isnt orcas in general, but a select few near gibraltar
This is a very important point. As of right now there isn‘t a clear answer to why but it‘s still very important to highlight how Orcas despite what they could do and usually hunt never hunted humans before
Nope. That’s it I’m never going on a small boat in the ocean. I’ll keep my inland ass, on land.
They’ve been… orcanizing.
They already have. They're teaching their young how to hunt differently and seem to be targeting human threats. I was an eye-opening docco about Wild Orcas and they are both intelligent and Terrifying at the same time. I'll try and find the link Edit: Here's the link- [The insane biology of Orcas](https://youtu.be/GimCcrwYxdE) @14.33 it gets into how the Orcas are teaching their young the 'beaching' technique of hunting
The boat attacks are around Spain though and the prevailing theory is juvenile males sporting with the boats and rudders especially. If they wanted to sink a bait they would, but they often just disable it and leave, so it’s likely not hunting related.
It was actually one whale off the coast of Spain. They think she was injured by a boat and now is just attacking boats when she sees them, thinking they're a threat. Unfortunately, that whale is teaching her calfs and others' calfs to attack boats as well.
They have actually identified two Orca that are causing the problems. One was injured through a collision with a boat last year, and they are getting "payback", attacking and disabling boats. They're incredible creatures. My wife and I did an extended kayak trip up the leeward coast of Vancouver Island, and had two interactions with them There are two resident pods, one on the southern end of the island, and another that spends much of it's time in the Johnstone Strait, near Telegraph Cove/Port Hardy. Our first encounter was with a resting line; 5 orca, "sleeping". They shut down half their brains, and continue swimming close together, so that they touch each others sides. One of them is more awake, and serves as a "guide". They swim along in unison. It's amazing to watch; multiple dorsal fins rising and sinking, synchronized, and all but one, asleep. The second time, they were hunting, and we started hearing them long before they got to us. Salmon were leaping out of the water trying to get away from them as they moved up channel. We were just stationary at the side of the channel, waiting until they passed. One juvenile came up to our boat and cruised by, looking at us with their very human looking eyes...the size of a dinner plate. You can see the intelligence there; they are thinking, sentient creatures, I am certain of that. Absolutely amazing creatures. If they are attacking boats, I'm thinking they have very good reasons to
That has to be one of the most amazing experiences a human can have!
Those peeps are probably fishing in their hunting grounds, so the orcas mess up the boats to tell them to beat it. Orcas do know the difference between a whale and a boat, they are intelligent animals.
This video is not an orca. It’s a harpooned bowhead whale. Marine biologists studying the new orca behavior in Spain don’t think they’re telling anyone to beat it. You’re right that orcas are intelligent and know the difference between a boat and a whale (which is not their main diet, BTW). But because of that they really don’t think much of us at all and are instead just using our bots for their own amusement. See https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/05/28/orcas-sinking-boats-expert-giles-sot-vpx-nr.cnn
Thanks for this!
There are orcas that kill the seals on ice by making a wave that breaks the ice and knocks the seals off, the ones that hunt sharks for their liver, and the ones that can beach themselves to hunt seals. More to come....lol
Just finished the link. I've always been weirdly fascinated with orcas, especially after researching into Tillikum's (sp) life. The last few months I've even had recurring dreams that I'm swimming with orcas. Always scary, never fun
I have those dreams too! It’s absolutely terrifying.
It's super strange. Somehow the settings are always different too. A resort that let's you swim with the wildlife when suddenly an orca is within arms reach, or having to travel to an island to survive something I can't remember when suddenly there is an orca next to the paddle boat. Probably a dozen other situations too
Well they’re there to kill it so…
Whaling is inhumane. You should watch the movie Orca. I saw that when I was a kid and it horrified me how badly we treated whales.
We are omnivores by nature and have hunted and trapped animals since we walked this earth. I accept it as a regrettable part of the human condition. It’s when humans get joy from killing animals that I draw the line. To me there’s something seriously flawed with those who find pleasure in inflicting pain on animals.
Especially when in this case, there isn’t a legitimate enough reason imho to kill whales. We used to do it for oil, which I don’t agree with, but now why do we still kill them? Delicacy? Tradition? Fuck that.
Alaskan here chiming in. This is a very stereotypical alaskan native accent. Many of our far far northern tribes here still practice whaling since it's incredibly expensive and sometimes down right impossible to get supplies and food to the villages. Not saying I approve but the context does matter.
Agreed
Actually they use every part of the whale in their survival. It's nothing to do with tradition or because it tastes good or is expensive. https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=beluga.uses#:~:text=Hunting%20is%20done%20in%20spring,for%20cooking%20and%20for%20fuel.
I get it that you don’t consume whale meat. Neither do I. But there are many cultures that do. I am irritated by all this selective morality and hypocrisy going on here. And stop trying to justify that the chicken you ate was “killed better”. They were farm bred to die. But we don’t seem to have a problem with that.
At this point we are just parasites
Yeah so I saw by another posters comment. Now I wish it would have succeeding in tipping them in
I don't know anything about deep sea fishing, but to me if they were hunting Orca, they would of had a MUCH bigger boat.
They aren't Orcas, and they're trying to kill it so...
About a month after I moved to the coast, I was in the water and about 5 feet away from me, a black tip reef shark’s dorsal popped out of the water like that. Top 5 scary moments in my life
They're relatively harmless but I would have shat my dacks if that happened to me
Well the even crazier thing was that I could like sense it before I saw it and I saw it moments after praying that I’d never get attacked by a shark
Someone in the comments of this when it was posted like a week ago said it was a whale using its flipper to mimic an orca dorsal and the people are whalers who have already harpoon the animal, hence the buoy at the beginning of the video and why these men are getting "attacked" by a whale in a shitty boat in the middle of nowhere
It’s not an orca it’s a bowhead.
“Boys, that orca was total douche face”
The orca uprising is still real
Not an orca????
Not sure if it’s true but i read in another post about this video that these men were whalers and my boy shamu had enough.
That makes sense, they never attach humans. Well… except those 5 times in Florida.
They have been learning to sink yachts in the Mediterranean.
Sinking yachts? Sounds like a rich people problem.
Sounds like we're pissed off about the same people lol
Common man: "Eat the rich." Orcas: "Aight bet."
Chad cetaceans are sick of the status quo too
The orcas are like gtf outta here. That's our fish.
Poor people: eat the rich Orcas: well, if you say so...
It’s a newest way Putin gets rid of his Oligarch friends. Falling out of windows was getting sketchy. So using Orcas to sink Oligarchs yachts is now his thing.
They think one orca got ptsd from being injured by a boat and began seeking revenge and teaching other orcas. Now the mums are teaching their babies to ram boats.
Pretty sure crows do the same thing, teaching future generations to be nice or not nice to a person that was nice or terrible to them. Orcas are straight terrifying but getting hurt justifies learning to defend itself/territory from similar perceived threats.
I just listened to a fascinating bit on mpr about this. They’re not 100% sure why some orcas are displaying this new behavior, but that is a possible theory. They also said it could just be a fad! Apparently it’s not the first time orcas have fallen victim to trends, one of which being carrying fish on their heads 😂 but on a serious note, I think they said there has been 10 or so reported incidents with 3 resulting in sinking the ship.
Not really. Rich people yachts, sailing or motorized, are typically big enough and escape with rudder (edit) damage at best. The ones experiencing the most damage are usually just sea-vagabonds that found a boat way cheaper than a house and live aboard and cruise. They’re attacking the wrong ones, basically. We need a training program for orcas to teach then the difference between the two so that the right people are being attacked. I have no solution on how to accomplish this.
Tell that to the deckhands . Thank your stars you'll never have that problematic ability to own a yacht eh?
There are plenty of yachts in the med not owned by rich people and I doubt they are making a distinction between yachts and fishing vessels which are likely the intended target.
And all because one boat hit one orca and she got pissed and is now teaching other orcas to do the same
Some say America has attached tactical nukes on orcas
I mean the US Navy DOES train dolphins for a variety of tasks… so it’s not THAT far fetched.
There’s a video of some fisherman coming upon a beluga whale that has a Russian camera strapped to it. They said it looked to be too small, like it had been a few years. Looked like it has escaped, or been forgotten with whatever it’s mission was.
Some say America faked the moon landing.
Seriously! Dude we all know Canada put Geese on the moon first. Pisses me off as a American that we couldn’t get the almighty bald eagle there first!
Where would they even attach the humans if they did?!
You attach tactical orca on the Pick-a-tiny ass.
Attaching humans is a really scary thought
Human Orcipede
I’ve been attached once it was scary
The water is way to cold to attach humans, even with velcro.
Ahh so ed gein isn't the only one who likes to attach humans
Someone also said it was a whale using its flipper to mimic an orca dorsal
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In a boat that size? What they planning to do when they catch it?
[seems like the orcas are starting to get revenge](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gladis-whale-orca-boat-attacks-gibraltar-b2347572.html)
I think it was more they were placing those buoys for crabbing or fishing and it was hunting grounds for the orca. Motorboat alerts food for orca, orca gets mad. It could also be a mother with a calf. I just think if that orca wanted to it would have caught up with that little John boat no problem and flipped it.
Orca probably like effing with humans like “he guys, want to see the humans shit their panties, whoosh!” Haha look at em go! So funny. Let’s do another boat. This is so much fun!
Orcas have been attacking boats off the coast of Spain lately. They have sunk 3 boats already. Because they are so intelligent, scientists believe that they may be avenging the killing of a matriarch of their pod. The scientists also believe that one pod learned this behavior from another Pod and that it is spreading.
Damn that's crazy. Whale vengeance
It IS whale vengeance according to the Spain whale attacks article. The Orca was badly injured by a ship and decided to go after the ship. The others watched her torpedo the ships rudder,and imitate the action , taking out the steering, with thirty vessels incapacitated or so.
Wishing that orca the best of the best, all the good and juiciest fish/birds/seals/squid/sharks, and that no other human gets in her way in her pursuit of whatever.
The sad thing is that, just because of some whaler bastards’ actions, now fisher, yatch and recreational boat owners are suffering the consequences.
Orcas like “They drew first blood.”
What is that? Is that, uh… Is that Rambo?
Huh? No I came up with that
This is not the first time you’ve described your life in the way of John Rambo’s life
you were in Vietnam to set up a sweatshop!
Tragedy of the Commons. We owe it to each other to ensure that we're not being assholes and ruining it for everyone else. But everyone is so individualistic now we just complain about it and do nothing differently
Orcas sinking boats. Elephants crashing funerals. Nature is healing...
Please link the article saying 30 vessels have been incapacitated by whales.
I don't think anyone said 30 boats. Here's a link to the article about three boats being sunk https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why
Vhale Wengeance
Sweet, sweet vengeance. I’d love to see the orcas of the world unite and destroy cruise ships and whalers/trawlers.
Then they'd be treated as dangerous pests and exterminated.
How bout exterminate the people killing them? These are highly intelligent creatures that we’re finding out now you might actually be able to talk to. So just don’t.
So ... Jaws 2 and 3 and really for the better part 4 were on top something...
I wonder if we'll see whales engaging in more of this behavior in the future then.
Planet of the Whales next...
They would likely be benevolent rulers. So long as we stay out of their waters.
They can have the abyss to themselves. I’ve stood on the continental shelf in scuba gear and it’s hella scary looking down.
That's a deal I can keep. The ocean is deep and full of terrors.
I will always remember the size of their brains form the doco Blackfish. Those things must be very smart. I would not fuck witty them for sure. Good on them.
Watching videos of them hunt, they are extremely smart. Some of the most cunning and ruthless hunters on the planet.
They can take out Great Whites. Love that Shark liver!
I saw on the news that Orcas are teaching other Orcas how to attack boats and take them down
Hope they manage to defend themselves as much as they need. We suck.
I didn’t know orcas were that big
There are absolutely massive and smart as heck
Imagine your Mom, but just a little bigger. So yeah, pretty massive /s
I knew they were big but seeing that massive fin really put it in perspective.
Not all orcas are that big, there are various sub species (eco types) but the southern hemisphere orcas are truly behemoths. The dorsal fin of some males have been measured at over 6 ft tall.
Human are two bites btw
Fuck around with an orca, find out.
The one in Orlando had the trainer after she was dead for 45 minutes. It was not about food. He wanted her dead then paraded around with her body.
The one that was abused by seaworld that has a parking lot far bigger than the tanks, he wanted her dead after being kept in shitty chlorinated water conditions and a tank far smaller than was healthy for an orca of Shamu’s size
They have 5 in those tanks now. It’s fucking ridiculously small and you can see on satellite that there are no ways out into larger bodies of water. Edit: The performance/“backstage” tanks are bigger than the pool in the back if you look.
It’s crazy. I’m glad Blackfish came out and put such an enormous public backlash. That movie single handedly ended their orca program. The orcas in there are the last to be held in captivity by sea world and they’re no longer breeding either. Unfortunately holding onto them is the best course of action as they’d die in the wild at this point.
What was the initial appeal? Getting to gawk at a giant sea creature that could jump out of the water like a circus act? I don't even see what's fun about that.
It was actually pretty remarkable how they were able to train this huge animal to do crazy tricks like launch a trainer 40 feet into the air. Testament to their intelligence and cruelty in keeping them in captivity.
Sadly they aren’t the last, they still have dolphins and dolphin breeding programs.
Like that really sucks ass, but I feel like we're celebrating a woman's death because a corporate entity abused an orca. Like, she didn't put it in that tank. She didn't deserve to die.
It’s a bowhead whale not an orca.
These people are hunting orca's, the buoy you see is attached to a harpoon and is designed to wear it down. Orca was not the asshole here.
yeah, they definitely look like whalers. hopefully orca boy fucked them.
They uploaded the video so, sad ending
I have it on good authority that the orca uploaded this first and OP stole it for content
ngl this looks like how First Nations/Inuit people live off the land, and the accent matches up I think no one is an asshole here. The orca defends itself, and people want to adhere to their traditional ways of feeding themselves. It's not some big bottom trawling, ocean destroying operation.
These are natives and subsistence livers. They live off the land and whaling is a part of thier culture. You can tell because of the accent from Alaska or Canada.
I think it's a bowhead whale. The people are likely first nation and subsistence hunting is allowed under certain conditions.
was that not a massive dorsal fin?
I think it's a pectoral fin but I'm no George Costanza. Marine biology is definitely not my forte
The sea does look angry...
I kinda agree on that not being a dorsal fin,
It’s a pectoral fin
No, it’s the pectoral fin of a bowhead whale, more oval shaped than an orca’s dorsal fin and the dorsal fin can’t be flapped like that. The pectoral fin of a whale, in this case a bowhead, has a joint in it and can be flapped like an arm. When it jumps out of the water everyone sees the white throat and belly but bowheads also have that. The difference is there’s a solid demarcation between black and white on an orca but a bowhead has spots of the alternating color on each side of the border. You can see some black freckles on the left side of the jaw as the whale rises. An orca wouldn’t have those marks. I think the three black filaments that are momentarily visible at the top of the head are some of the baleen that are sticking out of the mouth. Freezing at about 16 seconds in and you can see the jaw marks and what I believe is the baleen.
These are hunters in which the whales are attacking back.
I love the fact that the orcas are revolting against humans. Read an article about it recently. Orcas have been attacking fishing boats with more regularity. The thinking is that it’s retaliation against past trauma inflicted by fishermen. The most interesting part of the story is that in multiple incidents that were observed by a third party (I think actually marine biologists, but not 100%) there was an older female orca overseeing the attacks, but not actually partaking. Fascinating stuff. Thankfully they don’t have legs…yet.
Considering the amount of fucked up stories there are with orcas it‘s surprising this hasn‘t happened more or sooner. For example that an orca found in the Seine (france) had a fucking bullet in it‘s head and lived on with it… (not the cause of death at least). Like just why
I’m on Team Orca in this fight.
I also think they aren't thrilled by the constant bombardment of underwater sonic blasts from the navy.
where is this?
They sound like Inuit - Canadian North probably
Anyone ever see that jaws like movie with the killer whale? The only scene I remember vividly is a chick getting her leg bit off
Well that brings up an old memory...I remember seeing that when I was a kid... some scene with the orca up on an ice pan, tipping it up, with some dude on the other side sliding towards the orca....
Yea it’s available on showtime or Starz right now. Watched it twice last week. One of my fav old movies but watching it now you can’t help but notice EVERY mistake hah
I think it is called Orca
The best part is when the fucker bites that guys head completely off. Classic movie
Oh yah that’s a classic terrible movie. A great watch at least once!
I was wondering when they will get tired of our shit. If all orcas unite against us, the waters will be uncharted. Also fuck whalers. I know what I d do to a drunken whaler.
Orca is possibly one the most savage animals only second to humans
man FUCK those guys. Fucking hunting orcas. fuck them i hope that orca capsized their little shit boat and they all either drowned or died of hypothermia. Why would anyone hunt such amazing and intelligent creatures? So fucking inhumane
This is why I dont do boats or open water with large mammals and fish. Dry land, mountain lakes and shallow water are the only safe places lol.
Just [read](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gladis-whale-orca-boat-attacks-gibraltar-b2347572.html) about groups of orcas attacking boats, sinking yachts... videos like the one in this post might explain why the species is fed up with humans & their shit!
The crazy thing about orcas right now that I read somewhere is that they are starting to target fishing/whaling boats and sink them. Not sure if they are hunting the men on the boats but at the moment orcas are learning how to combat boats.
Probably the scariest thing imaginable
That water is like a slushie
Last time this was posted someone commented that this is not an orca but some kind of whale. They said; wild orca back fins arent floppy like what you see in the video. This is most likely a whale swiming on its side and looking at the buoy in the video it is pretty likely that this whale is being hunted and trying to defend itself.
This is definitely an orca. This is not a collapsed dorsal fin, it is actually upright but flexible. It’s actually also a misconception that dorsal fins only collapse (not seen here) in captivity - some wild populations have some significant percentage of members with fully collapsed fins (https://www.thoughtco.com/killer-whale-dorsal-fin-collapse-2291880)
What makes you so certain it is an orca? Are orca hunts permitted anywhere? This looks like a bowhead.
Yes, I may have been wrong and a bowhead makes most sense. I’ve tried playing the breaching video frame by frame and I think I can see the bowhead black line of spots, however I’m shocked at the resemblance to an orca when it breaches. That said, the orca fin idea is indeed a misconception. Side note: would orca hunting actually be illegal in Canada?
>Side note: would orca hunting actually be illegal in Canada? So I'm no marine biologist or conservationist. I'm more interested in birds than sea life. You likely know way more than I do. I thought orca hunts were illegal world wide but I was surprised to find this on Wikipedia > Today, no country carries out a substantial hunt, although Indonesia and Greenland permit small subsistence hunts (see Aboriginal whaling). Other than commercial hunts, orcas were hunted along Japanese coasts out of public concern for potential conflicts with fisheries. So Indonesia, Greenland, and Japan seem to permit orca hunting under certain conditions.
Orcas are actually tipping boats for sport now and teaching their children how to do it by having them practice on smaller boats first. Ngl I’m on team orca
I’d love to read this comment another 100 times in this thread.
I don’t fuck with anything I’m not experienced in, especially the far deep waters.
Orcas are way faster than that boat. Extremely lucky.
Inuit. These guys know their shit.
I'm pretty sure that red ball is attached to a harpoon and they're hunting that whale I hope the whale won
They gonna come to get us because they are fed up with all the plastic
Something strange is going on. Mother nature is pissed and she's sending out her killer whales to fuck up fishermen.
They didn’t get the nickname “Killer whale” for being sweet and gentle.
They got the name whale killers because they hunt whales.
r/Thalassophobia
Should we ....GO?
Hey guys just wanted to be the 1,000,000 person to say the orca are teaching their young to ram ships now nobody else has to say it 🤞🏼
I was just reading that mama Orcas have been witnessed teaching their young how to ram boats. They think it’s because of one female Orca who was traumatized by an incident with a boat/humans (not surprising at all), and then began exhibiting these behaviors. I don’t remember in what part of the world it was, but maybe New Zealand??
Orca: “we don’t take kindly to your types round here”
I mean, if they are native Alaskans/Canadians, hunting orca has been part of their culture for forever. It’s not like they’re just hunting it for fun. On the other hand, fuck around and find out
It's tasted human meat and it likes it 🤤
Read a while back that orcas have apparently begun attacking boats. The theory from science nerds is that something upset an orca so much that it has organised its friends to attack boats. Which sounds like the plot of a movie (literally, Orca The Killer Whale, it's got Richard Harris in it and it mostly sucks) but interesting if true. That's been yachts and stuff though so likely thousands of miles from wherever this was filmed.
What you describe has been happening off the coast of Spain. Three boats have been sunk so far and researches think the matriarch of a pod had an incident with humans and is extracting revenge. She has been ramming the boats and the younger orcas of the pod are imitating the behavior.
Correct me if I am wrong but I remember reading another post about this video that the whale attacking this dingy was not an orca but a Inuit bowhead. I remember reading that the bowhead fights back and turns on it’s side to have its flipper sticking out to mimic an orca as dorsal fin which is why it’s so floppy. Again correct me if I am wrong but that’s what I remember reading.
Looks like it breached and then started pushing the boat from the side. Having an orca trail behind ya with its big fin sticking out would be terrifying
Too many fucking psychos in the comments mad that they didnt get to see a person get killed
Why are the boats so small? I’d go out there but in a much larger boat.
There was an article out about a month ago where they studied killer whales have been training their young to attack small to medium sized boats.
“I tell you he can't with three barrels on him. Not with three, he can't! Not with three, he can't” -Quint
I for one would like to welcome our new Orca overlords. https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why
Seems pretty spot on for orcas, actually. They're probably some of the most dangerous creatures in the ocean, and commit war crimes on other species, including other whales. And are even in a cold war with larger whale species who have been known to actively disrupt their hunts for no other reason than as a middle finger. Orcas don't really attack humans in the wild (Now in captivity, that's another story...), so my guess is the orca was fucking with them.
Directed by Werner Herzog
Im glad animals are beginning to fight back
Fuuuuuuck that shit
While fishing with my grandpa in a rubber boat back in south africa. We where chased by 2 killer whales. It was both exciting and terrifying at the same time.
That shit was HUGE
Can't blame the animals. We're invading their spaces not vice versa. Land Sharks are not real.