The Orca Interaction Atlas — every logged Iberian orca/vessel interaction, the density-based danger corridor where they cluster, and the shallow-water route built to avoid both the pods and the deep-draft shipping lanes.
Off the Iberian coast, a resident pod of orcas has taken to approaching sailing and motor vessels — sometimes brushing the rudder, sometimes stopping the boat dead. The Atlas maps the interactions themselves, where they concentrate, and the route built to miss them.
Each encounter plotted and clustered — boat type, rudder damage, and the reported behaviour, drawn from an open Cruising Association sample cross-referenced with Portuguese Navy (AnavNet) reports.
A density-based zone drawn directly from where interactions actually cluster — not a guess, a measurement of the record.
The 20–30 metre isobath — a shallow-water line that threads between the pods offshore and the deep-draft shipping lanes.
A live Leaflet chart of the Iberian coast with toggleable layers, a running interaction count, and a damage legend — built to be read at a glance and dug into on click.
Public marine-science data, laid out plainly — no editorializing, no invented precision.
GTOA's full interaction database isn't openly downloadable — the Atlas runs on the open Cruising Association sample plus GBIF sighting records and AnavNet (Portuguese Navy) reports. A lower bound, not the complete picture.
A toggleable heatmap of orca sighting density from GBIF sits alongside the interaction pins — where the pods have been seen, not just where they made contact.
The corridors are interpretive, drawn from the open record for orientation — not a substitute for local notices to mariners or GTOA's own guidance.