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An orca was seen repeatedly bumping into a yacht near the Strait of Gibraltar, an area known for orca attacks on marine vessels, on Tuesday, May 6.

This footage captured by Ilona Skorobogatova shows the orca following the yacht and repeatedly bumping into its side near Barbate, Spain, on Tuesday. “Oh my God, it’s huge,” Skorobogatova could be heard saying.

Skorobogatova said that the orca continued to attack the yacht even after they sped up. Later footage shows members of Sea Shepherd, an international nonprofit marine conservation organization, arriving on the scene.

Researchers hypothesize that the attacks might be a new “fad” among the orca population in the area, or a reaction to a bad past experience involving a boat, according to Scientific American.

Alfredo Lopez, an orca researcher at the Atlantic Orca Working Group, told Scientific American that the orca attacks near the Iberian Peninsula are part of a rare behavior that has only been detected in that part of the world.