They have a hard tooth. The trimaran of a crew of the sailboat rental company Saileasy was the target on Monday of an attack by a group of orcas while crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. At first, three to four cetaceans began to nibble on the rudder (submerged part of the rudder) before moving away for a moment. The crew then contacted the Spanish port of Tarifa and started its engine: "They had already eaten half of the rudder and when we turned on the engine, they immediately turned back," says Romane Venier, one of the six crew members.
The band of orcas returns more numerous, "more than a dozen", and then finishes nibbling the rudder, depriving the sailboat of any maneuverability which therefore had to be towed urgently as the animals began to attack the floats. The crew, who brought the 13-meter trimaran from Portugal to Marseille, left for a good fright and the demonstration that the attacks of cetaceans are, it seems, more regular. The sailboat is under repair in Barbate. New, it had just left a shipyard in La Rochelle.
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