'It's so easy for these beasts to sink us if they want to,' Sébastien Destremau told Newsweek. 'If it was out of revenge, I think I would have been swimming.'
"They could crush the boat in a heartbeat if they wanted to," he said."But they were not aggressive, they're not wanting to have a piece of you. They were just coming in very gently, placing their nose wherever they want to place it, and pushing hard. Every one of them would have a go and play a bit and push and break off a piece, and they were blowing bubbles, as well."
"These are intelligent animals, and they are capable of extensive play and also learned behavior," Kerstin Bilgmann, a conservation biologist and research fellow at Macquarie University in Australia,"This is most likely a playful act with no bad intention by the killer whales as no humans were attacked in any of the cases."
Orcas are playful, social creatures and might not have intentionally damaged Sébastien Destremau's boat."If I was a parent orca, I'm not going to touch my living stock, because my living stock is low, so why not train them on our boats?" Destremau said."For them, the rudder looks like a fin! [It] moves like a fin and you can play and push and grab it. And, as soon as the rudder is destroyed, they disappear.
Unfortunately, stories of aggressive orcas, bent on sinking unsuspecting ships, have spread throughout the local shipping community, leaving many sailors fearing for their lives.
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