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Seen in Portugal. Not convinced that’s gonna work, but top marks for ingenuity.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Honestly, my main concern with this is that it will probably make the boat handle like shit.
in reply to Sarah Brown

I wonder what would happen if you painted it with orca markings? Or perhaps made it reflective? 🤔
in reply to Sarah Brown

Yeah, definitely one of those "A for effort, C+ for execution" things...
in reply to openridephl

@openridephl I think downloading the Orcinus app and using it to inform about whether it’s safe to go out or not is probably more cost and resource effective.
in reply to Sarah Brown

A great example of desenrascanso! But I fear it might hurt the orcas. 🙁
in reply to Miguel Arroz

@Miguel Arroz The one thing we know works in an encounter is dropping small explosives over the side. This makes them go away, and probably does them no harm, but the Spanish and Portuguese authorities get really pissy about it (mostly the Spanish to be honest), so open discussion of non-lethal methods for dealing with the situation has been difficult.

With the recent celebrity status the orcas has gained, it’s rapidly becoming impossible.

A lot of the blame for this lies with the Spanish maritime authorities who adopted a position of sanctimonious indifference to an escalating threat to marine traffic in their waters for years, until the behaviour had spread to nearly every pod of Iberian orcas. For about 2 years, it was literally just one or two individuals and could have been contained.

Now in winter, they migrate north. The French have demonstrated a rather more “hands on” approach, as demonstrated by one of the animals washing ashore in a river having been shot. 😞

in reply to Sarah Brown

sur que les Portugais sur les océans il ont rien prouvé😁
Diego suarez
Diaz
&1 certain magelan🤔
on raconte qu il aurait fait le ier vrai tour du monde..
Les Portugais ont colonisé le Japon chère sarah Brown..et quand on sait que les Japonais furent les premiers à défaire une armée de "blancs "(la Russie en l occurence) ça a du être sanglant..
Les anglais ont envahi la chine en la mettant sous opuim certes c est plus sweet😁
Avec leurs cliques françaises du napoléon 3 cela va de soit😉
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