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For over two years, Scuttlebutt has been sharing incidents of orcas ramming sailing boats along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts. But so far their ‘playfulness’ has led to survivable damage, but now the tally includes a sunken boat as reported by the Daily Mail.
This is the astonishing moment seven orcas destroyed a sailing yacht and sank it in 45 minutes, with the terrified crew fleeing for their lives on a life raft near Portugal.
Footage from November 1 shows the orcas circling and bumping the vessel, called Smousse while crew members Elliott, Augustin, Roman and Corentin were on board.
Augustin said that when they heard the boat shaking and a loud noise at the back of the yacht, they realized they were surrounded by orcas.
As the attack continued, the boat eventually began to crack because of the force of the orca’s jaws and the killer whales ripped a hole in the hull of the 40-foot boat…
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