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Do the go after the sail boats or is it just motorboats. The propellers are quite loud under the water, I wonder if they are maybe annoyed by the noise and lea
by me_me_me 2y ago
Do the go after the sail boats or is it just motorboats.
The propellers are quite loud under the water, I wonder if they are maybe annoyed by the noise and learnt attacking those vessels makes the noise go away
- moi2388 2y agoWhy wouldn’t the older ones do that, and only the males?
- rjzzleep 2y agoI recently learned that blue light is 50% stronger in interfering with melatonin generation in toddlers versus adults. I’m a lot more sensitive to noise than my father is and my daughter is even more sensitive, she’ll start screaming when people are too loud. Not saying that is the reason, but your question is addressing something quite common in different scenarios.
- burnished 2y agoGenuinely I read it as a little cross-species 'boys will be boys' at work.
- broken-kebab 2y agoThe answer is apparent if in the nature-vs-nurture girls-vs-boys discussion you keep a healthy inclination towards nature.
- rjzzleep 2y agoWould have been my immediate assumption as well. Wonder if they asked that question at all
- gibsonf1 2y agoBeing a sailor, I've been carefully paying attention to the Orca reports, they seem to like the modern sail boat fin rudders which have no skeg (vertical support attached to hull with hinged rudder behind) and is pretty easy to knock off the boat with little damage to the Orca. I heard about a boat with a skeg-hung rudder that stopped dead in the water in that area, but was able to continue on with a working rudder. When hauled out later, the hinge mount of the rudder had been twisted quite a bit off the skeg, so that Orca got a headache, and decided to move on.
- BoxOfRain 2y agoI wonder if any boats with a traditional long keel have been affected? I'd expect that arrangement to be even less attractive to an orca given there's no gap between the rudder and keel.
- gibsonf1 2y agoI haven't heard of any Orca success with either skeg-hung or long keel boats. A big "new" development in sailboat design is dropping the skeg on rudders for better sailing performance and lower cost even on blue-water sail boats. And also going with twin fin rudders, so more targets on a single boat for Orca's to play with. So faster and cheaper but far less safe.
- 317070 2y agoAmong the sailing cruisers, it's become clear this is not a factor. Sailing vessels have been attacked with their propellors on brake, with their props disengaged or with props running. In general, marine mammals don't mind the sound of engines (even though I do!) We have had pods of dolphins swimming along and playing around our boat in all configurations. I once turned off the engine when the dolphins came around, and they left immediately, presumable because we lost too much speed to be interesting? That genuinely surprised me, as I like sailing for the quiet.
- HumblyTossed 2y agoDolphins like to wake surf, so yeah, they left to go find another boat.
- bee_rider 2y agoThat’s quite funny. We think of nature as a separate space, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where solitude and quiet can be enjoyed. To the dolphins, I guess your boat was probably like their equivalent of an amusement park or something, haha. Novel, exciting, loud, and artificial.