This incredible video shows the moment a humpback whale bursts through the calm sea close to an unsuspecting fisherman. Taken by photographer Douglas Croft, 60, the photo shows the whale shooting up through the waves close to a boat with an unsuspecting fisherman in before it crashes back down.
The sequence was captured in Monterey Bay in Canada. Douglas said: “It was quite exciting! Salmon season coincides with the time when humpbacks are returning to Monterey Bay to feed for the summer and there were hundreds of boats on the bay fishing.
When my mother was alive we would go whale watching off Cape Cod and see the humpbacks do this there. There are few things in life more wondrous than to look up into the eye of a whale as they splash you. The smaller the boat the more spectacular the view.
I’ve been in a tiny 24 foot boat with the outboard cut off as dozens of humpbacks breach continuously for hours. It never fails to astonish me how such massive, majestic beings can fly out of the ocean and come crashing down mere feet from you without creating hardly any wake like a champion Olympic diver getting perfect tens every time. You don’t even have to chase after them.
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