Video: Underwater Videographer Gets Whacked By Humpback
By Jason Heller, April 12, 2009 @ 01:00 AM (EST)
Having just come back from Socorro where we were able to get in the water with humpbacks (albeit the encounters were limited), this video really caught my attention. I've heard stories of divers getting seriously injured by humpback fins and tails. Like any animal, if you piss them off, they will react. Of course most of the time this is not the case, and I've heard far more stories ofthe humpbacks gracefully maneuvering their fins and tails inches over divers' heads. But this encounter reminds us that whales are wild animals and we owe them the respect that they deserve. The videographer in this case is an excellent free diver and has done nothing overtly obivous to annoy the whale, yet he gets a good tail whacking.
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I know from my prior experience, that the whale knew Jim was there. And chose to give Jim a piece of his mind.