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Where my Orcas at?
As a sailor, it bugs me when I hear this sentiment. Orcas can't do anything to mega-yachts. The billiionaires are completely unaffected. The boats that they attack and damage are the sailboats in the 35 to 50-foot range, that is, the kind of boats that I might be able to buy, if I were motivated enough. (Like, $200,000, rather than $250,000,000.)
If you have 200k to spend on a boat that isn't your livelihood, that's nice, but I need you to stand up against this wall for a moment
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How about you save your bullets for the actual, child eating billionaires instead of some guy who is just kinda well off, huh?
On a global scale, anyone dropping 200k on a pleasure boat, lets assume they have a net wealth of at least 1 million (insane to spend 1/5th of your wealth on a toy but anyway...), is in the top 0.1%. It's not "kind of well off".
Even possessing 200k dollars puts you in the top 5%.
People don't understand numbers and that's ok. You let one lunatic have a trillion and now you're excusing the 0.1% as "kind of well off".
As my dad who grew up sailing says, "a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into."
There's nothing you can do to them that's worse than they're already doing to themselves by owning a boat.
Besides, they're talking about the kind of boat that you'd see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed:
It's no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there's hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.
Orcas wouldn't do anything to those yachts... If they went swimming / fell overboard then yeah.