There was no damage reported, and no one was injured, the sailors said.
Two sailing teams competing in a round-the-world race had a scary encounter with a pod of orcas on Thursday afternoon, race officials said.
The two teams are competing as part of The Ocean Race, an . The race has seven stretches across the world, but the two boats who encountered the killer whales are participating in a smaller three-leg version of the competition, called The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint.
One boat was crewed by Team JAJO, a group from Amsterdam. The other is crewed by Mirpuri Trifork Racing, a team from Portugal. The boats were traveling through the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Gibraltar when the encounter happened at around 2:50 local time, the organization said in a news release.
Jelmar van Beek, skipper of the JAJO Team, reported that there were multiple orcas involved.
