Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pod of killer whales scuppered vessel in Strait of Gibraltar despite best efforts of search and rescue teams and the Moroccan Navy Killer whales sink another boat near Gibraltar in relentless 45 ...
Pod of killer whales scuppered vessel in Strait of Gibraltar despite best efforts of search and rescue teams and the Moroccan Navy Orcas sink another yacht near Gibraltar in relentless 45-minute ...
The video starts with the man leaping off the side of the boat, directly onto the back of the killer whale. He then swims back to the boat and his friends try to assist him out of the water.
The name "Gladis" is a reference to the old scientific name for orcas, Orcinus gladiator, which means "whale-fighter" in Latin. In a 2022 journal article analysing photographic evidence and testimonies from the incidents, 31 distinct orcas were identified, nine of which had direct contact with vessels and were given the designation Gladis.
It’s easy to be misunderstood with the word “killer” in your name. Still, this year seemed to be a wild one for killer whales. From “attacking” and sinking several boats off southwestern ...
An attack on a strap-toothed whale. Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. There have been incidents where orcas were perceived to attack humans in the wild, but such attacks are less common than those by captive orcas. [1] In captivity, there have been several non-fatal and four fatal attacks on humans since the ...
The Yukon Harbor orca capture operation was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium party on 15 February 1967, in Yukon Harbor on the west side of Puget Sound. [1]
A whale strikes a boat off coast of Rye, N.H. on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, toppling two boaters into the water, who were rescued moments later by the boaters in the foreground.