Killer whales repeatedly ran into a 20-metre vessel, rendering its rudder inoperative and cracking its hull, in the 24th such incident this year.
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..
There have been no reports of attacks against swimmers. The interactions on boats seem to stop once the vessel becomes immobilized.
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