30 killer whales attack yacht leaving Brit crew fearing for their lives

we are about 50 miles or so from gibraltar just leaving the atlantic ocean and heading towards the mediterranean and the straits of gibraltar maybe about 25 miles or so off the coast of spain you can see the wheel here being ripped from my hand violently on its full lock from left to right or port to starboard however you want to call it but at no point was able to control it so what's happening here is we're still motoring we've got the sails up and obviously the engine electrics and everything around shortly we'll turn the engine off turn off the electrics and hope that that would be enough to stop their inquisitive nature this wasn't friendly it was not like watching dolphins that come up to the side of the boat and swim along this was something a little bit more orchestrated orchestrated what seemed to be happening was there was a pod and i'm guessing maybe of up to about i thought at some point about maybe 20 of them ranging from the smallest little baby ones up to some full-sized adults they would go under the boat they would bash up against the hull and they would rub their bodies i'm assuming up against the rudder stock i'm not sure if they were using their teeth either but at some point we did notice behind the boat chunks of the rudder that had been bitten off at this point onwards we've got the sails off something at one point they did stop and go away but they did return and that that kind of filled me with a bit of dread to be honest there's my white knuckles so we made our way back we should say limped into gibraltar checked in and i took the camera underneath and you can see the big chunk out of the rudder that's been bitten and or chewed off so you can see there it's it's well i think the sailing term is knackered that's pretty serious

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Length: 2min 8sec (128 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 28 2021