An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.
Could be a whale, or a large orca. The story goes that it was a single creature, but I think a series of Orca attacks that got attributed to a single creature fits the evidence as easily.
I’ve heard of a couple sinkings lately. Not that that contradicts your statement about docility, in fact I intend to add to it. Multiple little pods / small groups of species with similar cognition / intelligences (especially elephants, but also whales and often corvids) have been known to get fed up with humans’ shit and go on targeted rampages. They don’t think too dissimilarly from us, and revenge is certainly a pretty big human motivator.
The way elephants traditionally landscape the savannah, using long-term planning, makes me think attempting to weed out rogue humans might also be a pretty rational decision for high cognition animals.
I think it is that when you are diving you could be mistaken for a slow awkward seal.
Killer whales don’t attack humans in swimming settings because we are obviously not their food but when divers are underwater mistakes could happen and if you are not close to the surface anything that happens that messes with your regulator or tanks means death.
Giant pacific octopus would be the worry I would have.
Octopus are strong and curious, if they lived longer than a few years they would be next to us or higher on the intelligence scale. They can pull off your regulator or mask just out of curiosity.
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