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Orcas relentlessly battered a yacht in a “terrifying” two-hour attack Wednesday that didn’t end until the $128,680 vessel sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
Robert Powell, 59, and his crew were just 22 hours into their 10-day trip from Vilamoura, Portugal, to Greece when the pod set its sights on the £100,000 — or $128,680 — sailing boat.
“To me, they were not playing at all, they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew the weak points of the boat, and they knew how to sink it,” Powell, who was meant to be celebrating his birthday aboard the boat, told SWNS.
“Their sole intention was to sink the boat, and that was it.”
The five orcas circled the 39-foot sailing boat and took turns smashing it to bits around 8 p.m. in a coordinated assault Powell compared to the carnage of wolves.
The IT company owner said he felt the first hit on the bottom of the boat, named the Bonhomme William, and assumed they had run over a rock.
“Whilst I was looking around the boat to see if I could see anything — I was doing about 5 to 6 knots — it got hit again,” Powell recalled.
“On the second hit, I looked over the back of the boat, and I could see the dark shape of a killer whale in the water.”
The pod of five first focused on the rudder, rendering the sailboat unable to steer after about 15 hits.
That’s when the orcas separated and each concentrated on their own section of the boat’s exterior, including the keel and stern.
“They were circling. It was like watching wolves hunt,” Powell said…
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