A whale capsized a sailboat in the Pacific Ocean

The Danes were rescued by a fishing boat and then transferred to the container ship Mathilde Schulte. Photo: JEFFERSON SANGUNA/AFP

A whale capsized a sailboat in the Pacific Ocean, leaving passengers stranded at sea.

A girl traveling in a 51-foot boat with eight people on board, all Danes, took advantage via satellite phone to call her father after the all-Danish crew left the ship in a lifeboat.

The father contacted the Danish search and rescue service after his daughter explained that her ship had collided with one or two whales, but the crew was safe.

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Satellite phone showed the lifeboat was somewhere between Peru and French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean at 6:30 am on Wednesday.

An Ecuadorian fishing boat rescued eight Danish sailors whose sailboat collided with a whale in the Pacific. Photo: JEFFERSON SANGUNA/AFP

The Danish Rescue Agency contacted authorities in Honolulu, Hawaii, who launched a search and rescue operation.

The container ship Mathilde Schulte was about 10 hours from the collision site and changed course to the last known sailboat location on Wednesday afternoon.

At midnight, eight Danes were rescued by a fishing boat. But since the fishermen had to stay at sea for a month, the shipwrecked were transferred to the Matilda Schulte.

The container ship, which arrived at the fishing boat at 7 am on Thursday, is now bound for Papeete, Tahiti, and the arrival is scheduled on June 26.

Rescue passengers get out of their lifeboat

Three months ago, the sailing team was rescued after their 44-foot boat sank after being struck by a whale.

Four people spent ten hours on a lifeboat and one on a lifeboat after their Raindancer sank in the Pacific on the ocean.

The group was on a 13-day, three-week voyage from the Galapagos Islands to French Polynesia.

Last September, five people died after their charter boat capsized in an alleged collision with whales in Goose Bay near the city of Kaikoura on the South Island in New Zealand.

Orcas, toothed whales and the largest species of the dolphin family, rammed the rudders of boats in the Strait of Gibraltar this summer.

So far that no one was killed, although several damaged boats sank as they were being towed back to port.

Earlier this week, it was reported that this behavior may have spread to killer whales off the coast of Scotland after the killer whale came into contact with by small boat near Shetland.