Whale crashes into fishing boat, sends fishermen overboard
Now this is the stuff of nightmares...
Two fishermen didn't look like they were having a whale of a time when they were recently thrown off their fishing boat. The above video comes from Instagram.
The fishermen were fishing off the coast of New Hampshire when a whale breached right next to their boat. Another fishing boat near the overturned boat captured the incident on video.
The two men, Greg Paquette and Ryland Kenney, have become famous after going overboard during their fishing trip due to the humpback whale that crashed into them.
"You're basically trying to survive," said Ryland Kenney, one of the fishermen dumped into the Atlantic by the whale. "It's something that happens so quickly." (NECN)
The coastguard reported that the men and the whale did not incur any serious injuries, but, of course, it was a shocking and dangerous incident.
"The water temperature was 55 degrees, so when I dropped in, it was really hard for me to catch my breath," Kenney said. "I wasn't scared at that point, it was the shock of the water."
It happened with no warning, according Paquette: "Next thing we knew, he just popped up and landed on the transom of our boat." (NECN)
Watch the video replay and the report by 'CBS Morning Show' - courtesy of YouTube.
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