Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An orca swims through the Strait of Gibraltar on July 30, 2021. Along the southern coast of Spain and up around the west coast of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An orca whale pictured off the coast of Gibraltar. Photograph By Andrew Sutton, Shutterstock Spanish authorities have issued a ...

Between January 2020 and mid-2025, there were only six confirmed incidents of orcas sinking boats. Scientists are also still uncertain about why the orcas are behaving this way, but the leading theory ...

Sailors off the coast of Galicia, Spain, were terrified. First, they heard a deep, resonant thud against the hull. Then another, and another. Below them, in the murky, emerald waters, a shadow moved.

For more than five years, killer whales have been ramming – and in some cases sinking – expensive yachts, sailboats and fishing boats in the crystalline waters off the coasts of Spain, Portugal, ...

Spanish authorities have issued a warning to mariners off the coast of Galicia after Iberian orcas rammed two vessels in quick succession on August 30, causing damage that required officials to rescue ...

Bernardo Quieroz, a manager at the Mercedes-Benz Oceanic Lounge, which led the tour, suspected it might be orcas. While filming the boat, he noticed three of the marine mammals swimming alongside the ...