Divers narrowly miss being swallowed by whales

Posted on 29 July 2013

These divers at Souza Rock on the central Californian coast got more than they bargained for when they wandered into the path of a pair of hungry humpback whales. The short original video shows the two divers in the water on a cloudy day, then an ominous flurry of small fish (you can hear them smacking against the camera in their hurry to get away) and then… Well, you’d better just watch it.

 

Whale almost eats divers

Video by Shawn Stamback

As one of their friends jokes afterwards, “You’re going to have to do more to clean that wetsuit!”

Read about another close whale encounter: swimming with humpback whales in Mozambique.

Main image by Whit Welles






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