Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Rampaging killer whales who sank family's boat attacked another within hours
dailystar.co.ukThe gang of killer whales set their sights on a boat carrying five people on July 31, sinking the vessel which had been sailing about six miles off the coast of Sines, Portugal when the attack occurred.Fortunately, all five were all rescued when a nearby fishing boat, Festas Andre, was told by the Portuguese Navy to find the stranded passengers and bring them to safety - but the boat was unsalvageable and sank.READ MORE: Melting glacier in Swiss Alps leads to horrifying finds beneath snow and iceNow it has been revealed that the killer pod launched another attack just hours after the initial onslaught.The second attack involved two passengers on a small sailboat, who had been sleeping when the orcas struck, Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã reports.The whales made a beeline for the boat's rudder, using their massive jaws to bite it until it broke.The boat was escorted by another watercraft back to the dock.This comes as concerns have arisen over a sharp increase in whale attacks in the region.Orcas often spend the summer months off the coasts of Portugal and Spain, feeding on the tuna that live in the area and around the Gibraltar Strait.
Although they pose a threat to other forms of marine life, the killer whales, despite their name, don't often approach humans - but this is seemingly beginning to change.Since 2020, instances of orcas targeting boats have risen.
It is now so common for the beasts to approach boats that sailors have been advised to stay in port during the night.According to Orca Iberica, a group managing and conserving the population in the Iberian peninsula, about half of boat interactions with the endangered animals result in damage to the vessel.
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