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Killer whale attacks on the increase The incident is part of a growing trend of orca encounters in the waters off Spain and Portugal, where these mari
Orca whales may have been playing when they sunk Bonhomme William yacht. Credit: Shutterstock: Patricia Vanover
In the latest incident of a long-running series of “interactions” between orcas and midsize sailing yachts off the coast of Spain, a British yacht crew had to be rescued after an orca sank their vessel in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre at Tarifa received a distress call from the yacht Bonhomme William. The crew reported that orcas had disabled their vessel.
Apparently, they had hit it several times, causing it to go adrift approximately three kilometres off Punta Camarinal in the Strait’s western entrance.