off Cabo da Roca - Fire aboard a sailboat; the Swedish skipper, sailing alone, is picked up from his dinghy by the Portuguese Navy

At about 23:45 on 4 October 2026 the Portuguese Navy's rescue centre in Lisbon received an alert about a fire aboard a sailboat roughly 5 nautical miles north-west of Cabo da Roca, about 2.5 nautical miles off the coast. The only person aboard, a 69-year-old Swedish man, had left the yacht in his auxiliary dinghy and raised the alarm by calling the emergency number 112. The offshore patrol vessel NRP Figueira da Foz was sent. Three of her crew boarded the yacht, found nobody aboard and confirmed there had been a fire inside. The sailor was then found drifting in the dinghy and taken aboard the patrol ship, where the medical team judged he needed no specialist care. A boat from the Instituto de Socorros a Naufragos later brought him ashore. The reports do not give the cause of the fire or say what became of the yacht.