Former world heavyweight boxing champion, Wladimir Klitschko and his family were on Sunday night rescued from their motor yacht after it caught fire off the coast of Majorca in Spain.

Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service has confirmed that it evacuated eight people including the former world heavyweight boxing champion who retired in August 2017 following the fire in the boat’s engine room.

The Rescue Service also said that it responded to an emergency call, although a spokeswoman declined to provide the identities of those involved because of privacy rules.

She said the yacht, which was carrying nine people reported a fire in its engine room and was drifting 10 miles southwest of Port Adriano.

The 43-year-old Ukrainian took to Twitter on Tuesday to reveal that the incident happened off the coast of Majorca in the Mediterranean Sea and that nobody was hurt during the incident.

Klitschko tweeted: “Be careful what you wish for. Fate took my wish for ‘some #adrenalin’ a bit too literally and our boat-trip Sunday night ended up in our boat #igniting and family & friends being evacuated by coast guard and fire rescue-team.

“No worries, we are all fine!”