The terror on the seas continued Sunday as the crew of a yacht found themselves nearly getting their entire world fucked up by a pod of orcas off the coast of Spain as the irritable cetaceans incapacitated a sailboat, injuring one crew member and requiring a rescue, CBS News reports.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect is that the Amidala (it’s very possible the owners named it after Natalie Portman’s character in the Star Wars prequels) was attacked off Galicia in northwestern Spain, over 700 miles sailing distance from the Strait of Gibraltar where the Alboran Cognac sank following a killer whale beatdown in May. It’s entirely possible, maybe even likely, that the same whales were responsible for both attacks given that the animals’ habitat range is limited to about 70 percent of the planet’s surface and that is not a hard swim for them to make over three months.
Boaters around Spain and the Mediterranean better hope that’s the case because if they’re learning from each other and the knowledge gets passed along then tornadoes will seem manageable.