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From another article on the same incident:
That kind of boat is 45' long (which is liveaboard-size for a family but still not much bigger than an RV), was at least six years old since they quit making them in 2017, and was worth somewhere between $150k and $250k. This one was was owned by a rental company, but it's the kind of thing a middle-class family could afford if they decided to live on it full-time instead of owning a house.
Translation: although this wasn't a "cheap" boat, it was also very much not the deservedly-sunk billionaire's superyacht you were hoping for. Unfortunately, the orcas aren't hurting the right people.
So you're saying we need to genetically engineer larger orcas? How big are we talking, 700-800 meters long? Would it also be okay to shoehorn in the smartness gene that the sharks got in Deep Blue Sea? How about an invisibility gene, just for fun?
Maybe just switch from orcas to training sperm whales, and see how that goes first.
So you're saying, let's maybe not hurry to vote for the Orcas Sinking People's Boats party? That's probably good advice actually.
I don't know what you have against the orcas sinking boats. Classic liberal propaganda, what's this world coming to when orcas can't even sink boats? I won't be a sheep like you, the orcas day they don't even sink boats and let me make up my own mind so Im voting for them.
That’s quite sad. Sailboats are probably one of the most benign transportation and recreation vessels imaginable. Beautiful boats enjoyed by passionate and adventurous people.
Someone needs to just point these orcas in the right direction