Whale almost lands on kayakers

[summer]

www.sciencealert.com/watch-a-humpback-whale-breaches-on-top-of-a-kayak

[pixy0stix]

Serves them right for being out there.

[downtoearth]

Wow, they were what, probably only 100-200 feet from the whale that you can see to the left and then this one comes out just feet from them right next to them and almost crushed them.

[chedifuen]

This is why I do my whale watching from the safety of a hotel balcony. Safer for both the whales and for me.

[AJL]

[aprilsails]

Yikes.

I've been super close to a lot of whales but usually they were curious about the large boat with no engine noise. I would be scared shitless to be in a kayak and to have any of them around.

[lahoagie]

We were kayaking in Alaska and there were some fin whales about 200 feet away from us (humpback whales can be about 50 feet long, fin whales can be about 90 feet long). I was very scared! And our guide wanted to get closer. I was like "I'm good".

[dexteroni]

Holy shit. I'm glad the people are ok, but I have to admit I'm cracking up at the slo-mo "the kayak, the kayak!" part.

[aurora]

Holy cow.