The vessel was sailing along off the coast of Fonte da Telha beach in Portugal on Saturday when disaster struck.

The vessel was sailing along off the coast of Fonte da Telha beach in Portugal on Saturday when disaster struck.

Yacht was carrying five people when killer whales attacked it near Fonte da Telha beach

The coast guard swept in on Monday to save four people on a sailboat in Costa da Caparica, near Lisbon, that had suffered 'successive collisions with the bow caused by orcas'