Four passengers of a sailboat crossing the Strait of Gibraltar were attacked by a group of orcas for more than an hour. "The force of these blows turned the helm violently and you could feel the vibrations through the deck," said April Boyes, one of the four seasoned sailors on board.
A few days earlier, the boat of the French skipper Sébastien Destremau had been attacked in the same way. About twenty such interactions between boats and orcas took place this month, according to the GTOA research group.