SAN FELIPE, BCN, Mexico – Jan. 1, 2020 – At approximately 07:00 on the morning of December 31st, a group of assailants in 5-7 fishing boats (known locally as pangas) launched a violent attack on Sea Shepherd vessels Farley Mowat and Sharpie inside the Zero Tolerance Area of Mexico’s federally-protected Vaquita Refuge. The […]
thanks to the climate crisis, temperatures in the Arctic are on the rise and the region’s sea ice is on the decline. New opportunities are opening up for fishing, research, pleasure, transport, mining, and oil and gas industry expansion. Traffic in the Arctic has ramped up accordingly, with […]
A Comox Valley family had a meeting with some humpback whales recently, between Comox and Texada Island. Carolyn and Steve Touhey were out on their boat with a friend on Sunday, when they spotted the telltale whale spouts nearby. “I think there were four [in the pod] – […]
There have been numerous reports of Orcas attacking yachts this season and nobody really knows why. In this video they experienced harassment from a pod of orcas off the coast of Porto. The film was taken on October 4th during the yacht delivery of a new Lagoon 450 […]
Experts investigating a series of extraordinary encounters between orcas and yachts off the coasts of Spain and Portugal believe the animals responsible may have been triggered to target boat rudders by an earlier “aversive incident” involving some kind of vessel. ‘They were having a real go’: man tells of orca […]
Continuing on our stories about the strange behavior of the Orcas / Killer whales in Spain. A Scottish yacht owner has described how his boat was attacked by three killer whales off the coast of Spain. Graeme Walker, his wife Moira and their friend Stephen Robinson were targeted […]
Nobody knows why the marine mammals have been ramming boats in waters from Gibraltar to Galicia, Spain, in recent months. Some vessels were so badly damaged that they had to be towed to port. Here is a video of one chasing a yacht and damaging the rudder:
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