An enormous baleen whale capsized a 23-foot-long fishing boat this morning with two males onboard, and the video goes viral. The incident passed off off the coast of New Hampshire, and experiences recommend the 2 males weren’t injured.
Native information outlet Portsmouth Herald offers particulars on what occurred. The fishermen on the capsized vessel have been Greg Paquette and Ryland Kenney. The younger man recording the video, 16-year-old Colin Yager was aboard the boat that reached the Paquette and Kenney first.
Yager and his older brother Wyatt, 19, have been fishing within the early-morning hours of Tuesday morning once they noticed a whale. Portsmouth Herald experiences that about an hour later, that whale slammed into Paquette and Kenney’s fishing boat. The influence threw them overboard and sank the vessel.
Fortunately, the Yagers have been there and keen to assist.
Within the viral video taken from the Yagers’ viewpoint, you may see the whale breech (leap from the water) and land on the again of a ship. Wyatt Yager then begins turning his boat round earlier than Colin Yager’s video cuts off.
The Portsmouth Herald experiences that the whales’ victims have been within the water for lower than two minutes earlier than the Yager brothers pulled them to security. The Yagers say quite a few different boats had come across the assist; they simply occurred to get there first.
Watch it go down right here:
There’s a pissed off whale patrolling the waters of Portsmouth NH at this time. Head on swivel for those who’re on the market pic.twitter.com/xQPIHs8ZjN
— Ryan Whitney (@ryanwhitney6) July 23, 2024
Kudos to the Yager brothers for a swift rescue.
