This is the terrifying a moment a British sailor was surrounded by a pod of killer whales which tried to capsize his boat 'so they could eat him'.
Alan Bruce, 63, was manning a 44ft sailing yacht in the Gibraltar Strait with Frenchman Stephen Peare, 49, when four orcas suddenly began ramming and rocking the vessel in a bid to throw them off.
The pair managed to record a short clip of the mammal family, which consisted of an 18ft male, a female and their two calves.
The experienced sailors retreated below deck and radiod for help before enduring 90 minutes of harassment from the animals as they repeatedly shunted the hull of the boat.
They also deliberately broke the rudder to disable the yacht, in what Mr Bruce described as 'payback' for humans overfishing their natural habitat.
Alan Bruce, 63, (pictured) was manning a 44ft sailing yacht in the Gibraltar Strait with Frenchman Stephen Peare, 49, when four orcas suddenly began ramming and rocking the vessel in a bid to throw them off
Mr Bruce, from Ferndown, Dorset, is convinced he and Mr Peare were being 'eyeballed as food' by the four orcas.
He said: 'Something hit beneath the boat and when I looked back the orca was there. There was a whole family of them. The male was a big boy, about 18ft long.
'I rushed to switch off the engine and all the electric and just let them play with the boat.
'They can travel at 34 miles an hour and could crash the boat if they wanted to. They're not to be messed and I didn't want to make them aggressive.
'We went down below deck because when we looked over the side at them they were eyeballing us for food.
'We could feel the force of these creatures pushing the sides of the boat and there was nothing we could do - it was a 10 tonne boat and they were pushing it sideways.
'They are very intelligent animals and they were trying to get at the rudder to disable the boat. I've read reports of orcas attacking boats and they always go for the rudders.
'They
