A video posted by Ryan Whitney reveals two whales capsizing a ship toppling the fishermen into water.
“There’s a pissed off whale patrolling the waters of Portsmouth NH immediately.Head on swivel in case you’re on the market,” Whitney wrote.
The US coast guards knowledgeable that different fishing boats got here to their rescue.
Specialists mentioned the incident was a near-tragic coincidence and unrelated to any perceived aggression from the humpback whale.
“It was an accident,” co-founder and director of analysis for the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation, Dianna Schulte, advised the New York Submit.
“The boaters which might be within the video, they need to have identified higher to not be fishing with a big whale within the space, as a result of [an accident] can occur,” Schultz mentioned.
“The whales will come up via colleges of fish with their mouth broad open and shut their mouth, both proper earlier than they break the floor and even after they break the floor,” Schulte added.
