All about: orcas

For three years now, a group of orcas has been damaging the rudders of small boats off the Strait of Gibraltar, Portugal and as far as the Bay of Biscay. This is unusual behavior for these marine mammals and obviously poses a problem for sailors and fishermen. For the time being, these interactions ...

Since 2020, numerous boats have had encounters with orcas as they approach Gibraltar, on the Atlantic side of the ocean (some twenty such interactions were reported in May 2023). The Outremer 51 Piment Rouge, a boat well known to regular Multihulls World readers, was on passage from the Azores to ...