3 boats sunk after apparent coordinated orca attacks 

The problem could also be over-fishing , the Orca could be associating the loss of food with boats .

This behavior was virtually unheard of until this last decade. They're very intelligent animals, and normally gentle creatures with humans, so you do have to wonder what provoked this dramatic change.

I’m surprised it’s taken this long for nature to strike back

The orcas all had headphones and were listening to _We're Not Gonna Take It_ by Twisted Sister 😂

I'm surprised it took them this long

Man always questions these behaviors and never considers we've pushed them into a corner! Even man's best friend will bite when cornered and abused

Love to see it….. I’m amazed it took this long for them to do this. They’re extremely intelligent and develop different cultural identities from other pods. This pod is looking like it’s found a new thing to add to their culture.

Terrifying animal. They’re intelligent, emotionally driven, can work effectively as a team of usually 15 individuals, has built in sonars and are very athletic in their element. They can weigh 10 tons and still jump 15 feet out of the water. Even sharks and whales are afraid of them. With that weight, speed and strength if they decide to gang up on a ship it won’t take much to destroy one.

It's amazing and scary how smart the Orca is. The most part harmless? They are an apex predator for a reason. Odds are they are fighting back and trying to tell people to go away. It also looks like in the earlier part, the whales were testing/looking for weaknesses on the boats.

Honestly who can blame them ?

the Sea World reviews got around..

Respect to the whales. Humans have been getting away with too much for too long this is a sign of the times.

This is not limited to European water, its also happening in one area off the Brazilian coast.

Being a sailor , I believe that the movement of the rudder is producing a sound that is very disturbing to the Orcas. I hope this message is seen by marine biologists and check out this possibility. All sail boats that have been sunk have had their rudders destroyed. Guillermo R. Arrazola Florida, USA

It seems like nature is finally taking a swing back at us. We deserve it.

This is remarkable fascinating. Is this happening everywhere or just a recent area?

Truly shows the intelligence of these Orcas. One Cow Orca was apparently hit by a boat and injured. This it seemed enraged the Pod and they sought their revenge on boats that crossed their paths. Truly shows the intelligence of Orcas. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

As a horse owner and someone who lives in a rural locale with many animals all around, I have noticed that animals do take on attitudes of each other. They watch and mimic each other. I have seen one horse learn to turn on the lights of the barn, and soon thereafter, he's taught the others how to do that. I just wish the orcas would go after whalers and bring them down!!!

I love that Mother Nature is fighting back... most often our need to be on the water is recreational or for profit purposes, and we should be excited to see that the vessels that cause a lot of issues for the water's ecosystem are being checked. Sucks for the lively hoods or property being damaged, for sure, but hopefully this will bring some balance to the waters.

This is heartbreaking and shows the lasting effects humans have on these beautiful whales. 😢❤. Hopefully we can use this as a motivator to be better and change the way they're treated by humans ❤

Remember, Orcas are some of the world's most intelligent animals...They know every boat may out to take thier food , pollute the water, snag one of the pack in thier nets, etc...I just think they're saying,"Stay outta our turf..you're a threat to us"

Humans perpetrate “road rage” Orca’s perpetrating “sea rage”

Watch the 1970s film, "Orca". You will never want to harm an Orca ever again.

I'm wondering whether sound waves, electronic frequencies, and perhaps also the use of batteries could possibly contribute to the behavior. Considering the drive for "cleaner" energy and technology in the past decade. I'm no expert but some or most sail boats are also fitted fitted with devices that cause vibration on the hull to prevent sealife from clinging on.

We’ve known for some time now that these beautiful creatures possess intelligence which means memory and emotions. I don’t blame them one bit however if these boat owners are not guilty of any ill behaviour then I do feel for them. But the fact remains, nature is sending us a strong message. They’ve been hurt and they are learning.

These are highly intelligent animals that have shown the ability to act in coordinated ways it would not surprise me at all if these animals were targeting boats.

Ever wondered what questions you'd ask an orca if given the chance? We explored this idea in our latest 'interview' with a virtual orca, Arya. You might find it intriguing!

I was wondering when this was going to start.

Thousands of years of minimal Orca hassles, and now this. Humans have truly worn out their welcome.

I don't blame the whales. They are intelligent. They are being hurt & showing revenge...it's amazing. Every living creature has emotions....the whales have had enough...wow😢

I wonder if the boats had sonar?

Thank you

It’s about time that animals hit back. Even now, they say that there are only about 40 orcas left in this pod. Think of how mercilessly we have treated these animals and how intelligent they are, - and how social they are as a species.

Revenge is clearly a emotion ingrained in mother nature itself. I hope no killer whales are culled in response.

Killer whale most popular RU-vid search..”how to disable a boat”

This makes me sad because normally these animals are not aggressive towards people so something happened probably more than once and now they're getting revenge. Can't say I blame them.

They are adapting to overfishing and people invading their home. They are protecting themselves and their families. Makes total sense. Why would you allow a potentially dangerous intruder in your house with your family?

Are they adding something to the boats that are hurting the orca's sonar???

up Rivers' Inlet in BC the mother Orca cruised by and I had to look UP at her back. My salmon boat was shorter than her baby! Experience of a lifetime.

Orcas are extremely intelligent and emotional animals. Those humans met one with fury.

I wonder if the increased under water radar activity has anything to do with this? I imagine they are losing their minds every time a radar or sonar system is turned on.

This originated from Spanish fishermen hurting/attacking the whales and since then there had been sailboats attacked and damaged by whales around Spain, quite a few, ask the cruising sailing community. Now it seems to have spread and has become an intrenched culture among the orca communities.

They’re saying, get out of my house. Can’t blame them.

These whales are fabulous creatures, and I'm sad that their numbers are decreasing. They must be expressing grief, as highly intelligent mammals with astonishing talents, and they will teach their young to defend themselves. I hope they'll be left alone!

The whales are just defending their homestead. Their homestead just happens to be the ocean.

I'm firmly on Team Orca! Good for them!!!!

Gladys from Gibralter said not in my pond😂 and she's teaching the others too 👏

This is amazing. Sad for the people who could be injured but it's pretty amazing the animals are acting together like this.

Anyone else here on the whales' side 🙋‍♀️ We're ruining their home, trapping and killing them in nets, hitting them with boats and motors. Of course they're pissed.

Whales said “keep running them rudders and imma keep running them fins”

I’ve heard of tuna making breathing apparatus out of kelp, then coming ashore and attacking lions. So I’m not really surprised

I’m surprised it took them this long. We are encroaching on their habitat.

Honestly, good for them. They are trying to fight back after years of humans capturing them, hurting them, and destroying their habitat.

This counts as a Simpsons prediction. Yes, the Halloween special used Dolphins, but turns out it's the Whales that will cause chaos...

Remember that time that Australia went to war with Emus? America is gonna go to war with Whales 🤣

I sailed alone down that coast 20 years ago, before this behaviour started. I saw three orcas 80 miles off Mauritania and only felt wonder.

Thank you for this story 🙏🏾

Sailing in luxury boats is not a priority, the sea is their home.

If they get too out of hand, well, use your imagination with humans behind the handling of it. It would be unfortunate, but if you want to be somewhere safely, you have to do certain things.

There was a movie back in the mid 70’s called Orca. A killer orca went after boats in a revengeful attack after his mate was killed.

Orcas have been one of my favourite species ever to grace this earth for quite some time now. The intelligence these things show us really is incredible. I could imagine if we had something as clever as these on land and we were not so advanced as we are now currently as humans that we may have struggled for survival. Imagine something with the levels of intelligence of these guys around on land at the same time we were still figuring out how to survive.

It’s about time that wildlife started taking up for themselves.

Love you Gladis!

In the 1977 film Orca, the whale causes a bunch of damage in the cove where the fisherman that killed his mate lives. The whale taunts him and the villagers until he is forced to leave and face the whale's wrath at sea. Orcas are monogamous. They mate for life. They have long memories and their brains are much larger than ours. Their intelligence may easily surpass our own. They can communicate millions of pieces of information through sound in seconds to one another over hundreds of miles. They are very protective and territorial and will stay in an area where trauma has been caused for long periods of time until it's reconciled. Many coastal tribes have legends about the orca and how it has a vengeful warrior spirit.They are an apex predator being one of the, if not the most powerful animals on Earth. Not to mention, they have the patience of a saint. They may stalk their prey for days to weeks. As the old saying goes, it's not wise to fool with mother nature; and this particular earthling will fight to the death to protect it's family and it's pod.

In 1972 the Robinson Family aboard their yacht Lucette was sunk by Killer Whales in the South Pacific. Their harrowing story of being adrift for 38 days is a great read. I think it was turned into a movie.

Wonderful news. Hopefully this is just the beginning 🙏

If you went skating on a neighbor's front yard, pretty sure they wont come out with a tray of cupcakes.

This shows how clearly they're trying to defend themselves. So intelligent ❤ I pray they find protection from us through this awareness.

In the mid 1980's I experienced the opposite of this when I used to go out in my 22' cuddy cabin boat nearly every day all through the summer over a few years. Early the first year, I met a mother beluga whale with I believe her daughter beluga whale. When the mother came right up next to my boat in such a friendly way we could pat her on the head and she would gently rise up as high as my boat and was looking at everything in the boat and also in my cabin. Only two days later while out in this area, in the ocean just off of Jones Beach on long Island New York, just the daughter beluga whale came gently up to my boat this time. Doing mostly the same thing. Rising up inches to the side of my boat and again looking around and especially into my cuddy cabin. But this time I was alone and apparently so was she. I never again ever saw her mother again. Then only a few minutes later she gently sunk down under water and almost immediately came up on the other side of the boat inches away and gently rose up again. Enough to mostly look in the cabin again from this angle to see that I was truly alone this time. Then she huge out for quite a while sinking down and coming up with a huge jelly first that mostly filled her mouth. Then she gently closed her mouth eating it. And she circled my boat a number of times while swimming around, rolling and stuff. It truly felt like she was enjoying my company and me watching her, giving her my attention. This went on for quite a while. Maybe a half hour or even an hour. It was very cool and I enjoyed it. Then the next day when was in the ocean and around 3 or more miles farther put and about 3 miles farther east down the beach. Farther from the Freeport inlet. There she was again, as I noticed her heading my way, as I was just floating around out there as I liked to do. And again, she started by coming right up to the boat, rising up and looking around and into the cabin. Then right away, moving over to the other side to again get in the best position to see into the cabin and confirm I was alone as I most always was and would be, as she would would repeat this almost ever time I was out in the ocean in all different locations up and down the beach and at all different distances and sometimes quite a distance in miles from the beaches past the shipping channels and she'd come again and again to see me and hang out. Swimming around, eating jellyfish, doing different things and showing off. As I'd be sunning myself laying out on the bow of my boat and reading a book or pouring water from from my pail all over my body, cooling off and hanging out, or doing other things in my boat. She aways seemed as interested in what I was doing as I was about what she was doing. On some days she'd leave and swim back again one or more time over the hours I'd be out there. On some days she'd stay pretty close for easily an hour or more, maybe heading away and back again. I'd definitely say, we had some kind of a friendship with both of us enjoying the other's company and watching what each other were doing. This happened for around 5 or 6 months every summertime for the next three years. I definitely began to miss her and wonder about her on the forth year, because I had gotten married and moved to a more southern state. She had truly become an enjoyable part of my life. A friendship like no other. I aways thought she must recognize the unique sound my engine to find me. It was a friendship of mutual enjoyment of spending time with another happy being. No language needed. But I'm sure she could see the happiness on my face and the wonder in my eyes, as I felt I was seeing these same reactions in her. I can only hope she's still alive and happy all these years later. I do know it's possible. I'm also believer there are many wild animals in nature where we can share these simple mutual friendships, because I also believe I've had other I won't go into now. I recommend for others to simply slow down. Be patient with and around wildlife and just enjoying their presence from whatever distance. And sometimes they may find you as interesting, calm and friendly and want to observe you in their way and you just my get the chance to share each other's experiences for a time. And if they enjoy you enough. They too may desire to do it again and again. I've noticed over the years as I've enjoyed so many hours just tinkering around in and around my garden and property. That there are birds and all kinds of other animals that also live right there. It's there home too. Once they feel and trust that you won't ever want to harm or hurt them. And your just doing whatever you're doing. You may start to realize they don't fear getting closer and closer to you as they too just go about living their lives. Over time the local birds keep an eye open, watching when they see I'm digging and moving dirt and plants around. Just waiting for me to uncover or scare bugs worms from the soil, and don't hesitate to fly right close to me. Maybe within inches to pick off a tasty snack. These too, are friendship of a different kind, and also enjoyable. ENJOY

They might want to research the offshore fracking - it's on the increase and there may be a connection.

This February swimming in Hawaii, my husband and I noticed strange high-pitched, annoying sounds in the water---we identified it as an electric-generated skiff---If WE didn't like the sound, wouldn't the larger sea life NOT like it? It was irritating. Orkas are smart and teach each other. How about if we pay attention to SHARING the ocean with these gorgeous animals!

While orcas are mostly freindly to people, so many keep forgetting that we are visitors on the ocean. The seas are their homes.

There was a movie in the late 70s called Orca about an Orca getting revenge for his partner being killed by fisherman. I remember, seeing it as a kid. I remember feeling bad for the Orca. That movie got me thinking about how people treat animals.

how long will it take for the ones that are in captivity to start taking revenge?

You are in there tuff.

The orcas just now watched “Blackfish” and this is their revenge. Seriously though, some years back I read an article about a mother orca teaching her calf to hunt great whites. If not for the calf’s inexperience, the shark would’ve stood NO chance!

It’s the keels of those boats. All of the boats involved are sailboats with keels, which most definitely produce a sound frequency. During my last Atlantic crossing, the dolphins that swam alongside the boat could equally be heard below deck through the Kevlar hull of the boat, - and they were definitely zeroed in on the boat’s massive bulb keel.

Super interesting.

There was a movie about a vengeful Orca in 77.

I think the trauma hypothesis is a good one. Potentially trying to communicate with us to about our behaviour. I am reading a book on Stanford machine learning experts trying to decipher whale language, and so far they believe it is more complex than most of our languages. And that the first thing they will be asked once they can communicate is for whale rights, similar to human rights. Whales in general have emotional centres 4x larger than humans proportionally. So seemingly have a lot more compassion, empathy and patience than us. However, after hundreds of years of us destroying their homes maybe they are trying a new method to communicate.

I’m surprised it took them that long

Orcas can play battleship too.

I cant even be mad at them fighting back

Reporter: Killer whales are, for the most part, pretty harmless. Seal: Uh, did I miss something? Orca: No, but you'll be missing half your body when I get a hold of you.

That is wild! We were in a tiny fishing boat off La Paz..off Baja. We saw three very tall dorsal fins coming for us…they went under boat..came beside us…breached..it was crazy. They had a baby…left after a few minutes…years ago

What took the orcas so long damn

Seems to be a large ship in background of few videos, maybe they tried attacking that first and went after little brother? Could the noise not be part of reason?

from a sailor's perspective. We do not harm anyone. This seems to be a particular pot of orcas near Portugal/ Gibraltar and the big question is how to stop it without hurting them before lives are lost. I understand they're specifically attacking the spade rudders most sailboats have, Maybe there is something about that shape that triggers the attack. And maybe that is also the solution to the problem? a changed shape, colors, or such? I don't have the answer. For us, it would be to stay out of that known area as far as possible. I wonder if there are any other reports of orcas attacking sailboats in other places. I have never heard of it anyway, hence this is a rather peculiar behavior.

There are 2 theories about this behaviour: 1. The iberian pod of orcas, as an animal that likes to play en challenge itself, has found a new "sport" and it is kind of a game for them. 2) (the most probable option): A member of that pod of orcas experienced a traumatic event with a boat, so now they see the boats as "a danger or a problem". We cannot ask them so it is not 100% sure which of those. Orcas are usually very kind and curious about humans. There are 0 Orca attacks in history, 0! So a person in the water should not be worried. But... If those orcas associate boats as a problem, would not be a good sign if they associate boats with humans. They are smart animals and if they saw humans as a problem, that could be very, very crazy, but for now it didn't happen, and encountring a group of wild Orcas is the safest thing can happen, as you can be sure that there won't be any shark around...

I would bet it’s all the sonar going on. If you’ve ever been underwater and heard sonar it is extremely loud and very annoying. With the Navy and other navies around the world doing underwater sonar tests I would imagine it’s a natural instinct for them to just make it want to stop.I live here in San Diego California and a free dive off of La Jolla near Scripps oceanography and when they do tests off the pier it is so piercing and loud I can’t imagine what it would be like for an orca. It’s their ocean not ours

Michael Strahan is a newscaster now!

This story just breaks my heart even further. They are upset and i dont blame them one bit....disgusting world

This breaks my heart! They're so smart! PLEASE PROTECT THEM AT ALL COSTS!!!

Best believe, an Orca rammed my boat, we'd be having whale blubber for dinner...

Maybe Spielberg will make a scary movie

Truly heartbreaking behavior. They are taking their sea back and expressing great distress whilst doing so. Poor babies 😭

Absolutley!!! Nature will fight back! 😢 did they not think as intelligent as they are they would figure out how to survive humans making a mockery out of them?!

Sailers over there need to use some sort of underwater audible deterrent. Something that they can start out as an annoyance to get them to go away, but if they persist they can increase it as needed. I'd prefer the non-lethal approach, but Orca's can be very dangerous so I suspect this pod may end up getting hunted before too long.

Yacht Owner: How dare you touch my sailboat!!! Orca: How dare you run your sailboat across my living room!!! Lol, I love it! Its brilliant. At least they can peacefully work together to fight evil acts coming against their species/habitats but we can't even come to a logical conclusion or make logical decisions about obvious things that are harming humans.... Go for it Orcas! I'm cheering you on!

These orcas have finally had it. Every creature on earth has a tipping point. We are just seeing what one orca can do and getting her friends to join in. Orcas are smart and amazing. Whoever injured this Orca the other people in boats are paying for this tragedy.