There’s now a video of this incident. I can’t embed it here, but I can give you the YouTube link, which shows a southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) breaching off South Africa and crashing into a boat. It’s from CBS News; you’ll have to endure a short commercial but it’s worth it.
A CBS interview with the couple on the boat is here.
h/t: AJ
…oh dear – did you see the comment just below that? “READ YOUR BIBLE! IN THE LAST DAYS THINGS LIKE THIS IS COMMON PLACE! PEACE OUT” – so the loonies will find patterns in anything.
There’s no longer a commercial.
Oh yes there is!
Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn’t. And they are DIFFERENT commercials too, ranging from 10-30 seconds!
Southern right whales often breach (leap from the water). AFAIK, no-one knows why.
This one didn’t look before he/she breached.
…to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee! Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!
Wrong kind of whale — Ahab was chasing a sperm whale.
Son of a breach, it was real.
Unreal! 😉