Australian Diver Catches Once In A Lifetime Closeup Footage Of A Whale Breach

Australian Diver Catches Once In A Lifetime Closeup Footage Of A Whale Breach

Video: The ocean’s already fraught with danger, the last thing you need while swimming is a massive humpback whale deciding it wants to leap out of the water a few metres from where you’re treading water. But that’s exactly what happened to Australian photographer Beau Pilgrim, who fortunately got the whole thing on video.

To put things in perspective, a fully grown humpback whale can weigh as much as 36,300kg, which means that if it came crashing down right on Pilgrim, we wouldn’t have this remarkable footage to ooh and awe over.

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