There’s a video going viral on social media for good reason: It’s quite shocking. According to Boston’s WCVB, “Two people were thrown into the ocean after a humpback whale landed on their fishing boat off the New Hampshire coast on Tuesday morning, and the entire incident was caught on video.” Watch the video below:
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“We didn’t see him for a couple of minutes, and then the next thing we knew, he popped up and landed right on the transom of the boat,” said Gregg Paquette of Groveland, who was aboard the fishing boat with Ryland Kenney of Dover, New Hampshire.
The video was taken by 16 year-old Colin Yager, who was fishing with his older brother, Wyatt (19), both of Maine. Wyatt said his brother spotted the whale about one mile off the New Hampshire coast while they were fishing for pogies.
The video shows the whale breaching, then flopping over onto the rear of the fishing boat nearby with two men aboard. According to the article, “one of the men jumped and the other was thrown overboard as their boat rolled, and the Yager brothers said they helped pull them out of the water. Luckily, no one was seriously injured.”
Paquette said he was “truly grateful to them,” and added, “they were making the video, dropped everything, zoomed right over and plucked us out.”
These kids are heroes in my book. As one person on social media pointed out: “Insurance would have never believed that story.”
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