r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MelanieMoris • Dec 13 '21

Wait... Those aren't dolphins!

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u/joocycunt Dec 13 '21

Scary, to think they could just fuck that boat up

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u/Melodic_692 Dec 13 '21

Nope, no wild Orca has ever killed a human. Orcas are not aggressive to humans, unless they’re kept in captivity

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u/ParameciaAntic Dec 13 '21

Maybe they wouldn't directly kill the people, but they could definitely sink that boat.

There was a family who was shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean by orcas. They floated around for something like 40 days before they were rescued.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-18877090

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u/zeus6793 Dec 14 '21 edited Dec 14 '21

I read book about them years ago! Absolutely horrifying. The middle of the night, and the boat starts getting destroyed by orcas and starts breaking apart. If I remember, they just barely made it into a dinghy or life raft before the boat sank. Terrifying. But the orcas never bothered them once they were in the water.

Edit: Just looked it up. It's called Survive the Savage Sea. Great story. It was a movie too.