Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says. An international group of orca experts met to determine why orcas are ramming boats.

After four years and hundreds of incidents, researchers remain puzzled why orcas, also known as killer whales, continue to ram boats – sinking a few of them – along the Iberian Peninsula.

Killer whales are attacking boats, even sinking one; researchers want to know why Published: May. 20, 2023, 1:58 p.m. Two pods of transient orcas socialize and leap out of the water as they meet ...

In the early morning Thursday, killer whales smashed into a sailboat off the southern coast of Spain, puncturing its hull and damaging its rudder. Spanish authorities raced to save the sinking ...

This wasn't the first time Kriz had witnessed a killer whale attacking one of his boats either. In 2020, he says he was in the same situation taking blows from orcas.

For the last five years, killer whales have been ramming – and in some cases sinking – expensive yachts, fishing boats and motorboats in the crystalline waters off the coast of Spain, Portugal, France ...

The whales approach the boats from behind, striking the rudder or hull of the boat, sailors and other eyewitnesses have said. “That traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of ...

Following the publication of a LiveScience article reporting that killer whales, or orcas, around the Iberian Peninsula had started sinking boats and appeared to be “teaching others to do the ...

Aggressive orcas are attacking boats in Western Europe and the increase in sightings of this behavior is confusing scientists. The latest in a series of reported incidents happened off the coast ...

Whatever the case, according to multiple reports, killer whales near the Iberian Peninsula have now attacked three boats, one of which sunk, and appear to be teaching their young there to do the same.

The company Catamaran Guru wrote on its blog that the boat belonged to one of its clients.. This wasn't the first time Kriz had witnessed a killer whale attacking one of his boats either. In 2020 ...