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"They're inedible but if you flip them over, you will be rewarded with a rare delicacy"
by luckylion 6y ago
"They're inedible but if you flip them over, you will be rewarded with a rare delicacy"
- maxerickson 6y ago"More come with sharp things and commit atrocities."
- ceejayoz 6y ago“So don’t get seen doing it.”
- TeMPOraL 6y agoMight be hard in the era of radios - but then, perhaps they'll develop some kind of folk knowledge: "only sink the hard, noisy, floating things during storms".
- nicoburns 6y agoI heard that whales intetionally sinking ships was common throughout the whaling era, and has all but stipped since whaling was (mostly) outlawed.
- luckylion 6y agoWhich has taught them: if you sink their ships, they will stop. We just need to figure out what demands these orcas have!
- ceejayoz 6y agoModern ships are probably harder to sink, though.
- robocat 6y agoI wouldn’t bet on that. Modern ships can avoid obstacles using motors and navigation, and avoid storms using weather reports. Modern ships avoid sinking by technology, not strength. Fibreglass hulls in particular are quite fragile - especially sports hulls that are designed to be lighter.
- maxerickson 6y agoThere's apparently not many documented cases, just 2 mentioned here, with the one at the link being a whale the ship had injured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Alexander_(ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Alexander_(ship) Sperm whales ramming ships that attack them seems less remarkable than whales in general attacking ships during the wooden ship whaling era. Update: The article on the Essex mentions quite a few more incidents, but still only a handful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)