"Captain, you can't go down now. If the group of killer whales come back, you will be in danger." Chen Qingsheng said earnestly.
Xiang Yang was silent for a moment. Because of the killer whale's ferocious character and its notorious reputation, people often portray it as a capricious siren or a god of vengeance in movies, comedies, and novels. It is synonymous with ferocity and terror.
Many ghost stories describe killer whales as creatures more terrifying than the devil.
In fact, there is a habit of killer whales that scientists and biologists still cannot understand. This habit is that killer whales, which eat everything, are particularly friendly to humans. They are like oversized dolphins. Sometimes they will take the initiative to rescue humans who fall into the water and carry them to the shore.
Although the word "whale" is included in the name of killer whales, they actually have dolphin blood in their bodies and will not fight back even if they are captured by humans.
But things are not absolute.
Xiang Yang knew at least two incidents of killer whales injuring people.
One of the incidents occurred to a tamed killer whale. Subsequent investigations revealed that the tamed killer whale had been abused by its trainer, and the killer whale killed its trainer in self-defense.
The other occurred in the Strait of Gibraltar on July 29, 2020.
What happened was that Viorris, a British Maritime University student, was sailing with three sailors in the Strait of Gibraltar.
During their voyage, they encountered nine killer whales.
Whether for a student of marine biology or a sailor, it is undoubtedly exciting to encounter killer whales while sailing on the sea.
At that time, Viorris and the others were so happy that they took out their mobile phones and took crazy photos of the killer whales.
But what was unexpected was that the nine killer whales did not disperse around the ship. Instead, they surrounded Viorris and his crew and began to violently ram the ship!
The killer whales used their bodies to ram the hull, attacking the rudder and keel at the bottom of the hull. While attacking, they made deafening whale calls. Because the attack force was too great, the ship's engine and rudder all failed, and the bow was even turned 180 degrees by the attack.
Everyone on the boat panicked.
The sailors quickly reefed the sails and sent out a distress alert using a life raft and radio.
The coast guard who received the alarm almost thought they were making a false alarm. It took them a while to believe what they said - that a group of killer whales were attacking them.
No wonder the coast guard thought Viorris and his gang were playing a prank.
Killer whales? Attacking people
This is something strange that has never happened before.
These two keywords are not even related together.
Countless facts have proved that killer whales are very friendly to humans. There are many videos of humans encountering killer whales both at home and abroad. Sometimes when children are swimming in the sea, a few killer whales swim leisurely to the children, scaring the children's families, but in the end the children are safe and sound.
However, what made Victoria even more desperate was that the attack by the nine killer whales lasted for more than an hour.
Fortunately, the boat Victoria was on was 14 meters long, and the killer whale continued to attack for more than an hour but still failed to capsize the boat.
But the boat was also damaged, the rudder was smashed to pieces by the attack and the engine was broken.
The boat, which had lost its rudder and engine, was not rescued until an hour and a half later.
After the boat was brought ashore, people were surprised to find that one-third of the rudder was damaged, and there were even teeth marks of killer whales on it.
This is really strange.
Many marine biologists simply didn't believe the news when they received it.
A marine biology professor said there are indeed cases of killer whales interacting with ships.
Killer whales are highly intelligent mammals that sometimes use ship rudders as toys, biting or patting the hull.
But it has never happened before that a killer whale attacked a boat for more than an hour and destroyed the rudder and engine.
However, just two days later, on July 31, another cargo ship was forced to stop by four killer whales in the same sea area. After forcing the cargo ship to stop, the four killer whales violently attacked the hull, damaging the rudder of the cargo ship.
There was once a video circulating abroad showing a killer whale swimming to the beach and suddenly swallowing a tourist away. The video caused quite a stir at the time, but it was soon confirmed to be fake.
In total, there have been two recorded cases of wild killer whales attacking ships, and no direct attacks on humans to date.
Xiang Yang shook his head and climbed directly towards the ladder with the iodine. He didn't think the killer whale would swim back. Just because the killer whale dared to lure the blue whale didn't mean it would dare to lure the humpback whale.
Even if the killer whales come back, Xiang Yang doesn't think he will be the first victim killed by wild killer whales.
Even if the killer whales really come back and attack Xiang Yang, Xiang Yang can easily get rid of them with the help of the mysterious jade shell.
The male humpback whale was very happy to see Xiang Yang coming down, and immediately touched Xiang Yang with his big head.
Xiang Yang felt distressed when he saw that the cracked skin on the male humpback whale's head was still bleeding. He quickly climbed up the humpback whale's head and cleaned the wound.
Xiang Yang first examined the humpback whale carefully. They were just superficial injuries. The wounds looked very scary. In fact, compared with the huge body of the humpback whale, they were just like a slightly broken skin on a human finger. Not to mention that the wounds were so deep that the bones could be seen, even the fat under the skin of the humpback whale could not be seen.
Xiang Yang used iodine to wipe the wound of the humpback whale. The humpback whale was very quiet during the whole process, as if it knew that Xiang Yang was treating its wound.
At this time, a female humpback whale also swam over.
The female humpback whale also experienced a fierce battle, but there were no obvious visible wounds on its body. It is larger than the male humpback whale and less susceptible to injury.
Moreover, the male humpback whale was the first to rush into the group of killer whales. Plus, killer whales are very smart creatures, and they also know to pick on the weak. Seeing that the male humpback whale was smaller than the female humpback whale, they all focused their fire on the male humpback whale. In short, the male humpback whale attracted most of the killer whales' firepower, and the female humpback whales were almost unharmed.
Xiang Yang poured two dozen bottles of iodine on the wound of the male humpback whale, then climbed onto the back of the male humpback whale and waved to the female humpback whale with a smile.
The female humpback whale swung its tail, as if responding to Xiang Yang, and then stayed not far from the male humpback whale, motionless, like an isolated island.
Xiang Yang smiled and was about to jump off the back of the male humpback whale and climb back onto the boat.
At this moment, Xiang Yang's eyes suddenly twitched, and he saw a dark object moving in the deep sea water beneath him at that moment.