#orca attack

A story of an attack I had surely never heard of before.

In 1972, this man and his family were attacked by a pod of killer whales (he explains it as "mom, dad and baby in between"), which completely sank their 45-foot schooner.

The big bull was injured in the attack ("his head was split open" - paraphrased), and Douglas here thinks they mistook the boat for a whale they wanted to kill and eat.

“I think we were hit on the rudder 100 or 200 times. It was consistent.... At one point Evans could see an orca with a chunk of the rudder’s foam in its mouth."

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