Yes, you read that right. And if you’re a sailor, you’ve probably been rerunning this in your head again and again.  Orcas sink sailboat. A big sailboat. A 50 foot sailing yacht!

The prequel to this startling development has been playing out again and again for a few years. And now this May 13 news bomb.

An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.

The vessel Alboran Cognac, which measured 15 metres (49 feet) in length and carried two people, encountered the highly social apex predators, also known as killer whales, at 9 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) on Sunday, the service said.(Source: Reuters)

Wow! So much respect for our wild neighbors. And yet this is pretty chilling. Please don’t tell my wife!