Boats banned from coast after orca attacks

A mysterious spate of attacks by orca whales on boats off Spain’s coast has prompted authorities to ban people setting sail from the country’s north-western tip. The unprecedented attacks have crippled vessels and terrified crew members, and created a slew of theories as to what could have angered the whales. Spain’s Merchant Marine agency has decreed an approximately 100km stretch of Atlantic coastline between Ferrol and the Estaca de Bares cape in Galicia out of bounds for small boats in response to the ramming raids.