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[–] 68 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

From another article on the same incident:

Grazie Mamma was a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 449 measuring just over 13 meters in length. This fits the general description of the vessels targeted by orcas off Spain: According to researchers, the attacks always target sailing yachts measuring less than 15 meters long, usually while under way.

That kind of boat is 45' long (which is liveaboard-size for a family but still not much bigger than an RV), was at least six years old since they quit making them in 2017, and was worth somewhere between $150k and $250k. This one was was owned by a rental company, but it's the kind of thing a middle-class family could afford if they decided to live on it full-time instead of owning a house.

Translation: although this wasn't a "cheap" boat, it was also very much not the deservedly-sunk billionaire's superyacht you were hoping for. Unfortunately, the orcas aren't hurting the right people.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    So you're saying we need to genetically engineer larger orcas? How big are we talking, 700-800 meters long? Would it also be okay to shoehorn in the smartness gene that the sharks got in Deep Blue Sea? How about an invisibility gene, just for fun?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So you're saying, let's maybe not hurry to vote for the Orcas Sinking People's Boats party? That's probably good advice actually.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I don't know what you have against the orcas sinking boats. Classic liberal propaganda, what's this world coming to when orcas can't even sink boats? I won't be a sheep like you, the orcas day they don't even sink boats and let me make up my own mind so Im voting for them.

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