Tell me about a crazy meeting. Caught a humpback whale on camera leaving the water and landing on top of boat off Coast of Plymouth, Massachusetts on Sunday.
Plymouth Harbormaster Chad Hunter told NBC10 Boston that the incident happened around 10 a.m. off Coast of White Horse Beach. The 19-foot vessel withstood light its bow was damaged, but surprisingly it was still seaworthy. The boat was able to return to the ladder on his own power and the boat’s operator thankfully reported that no one was hurt.
“The boat was in right place in wrong time. It could be much worse for everyone is involved,” Hunter said. – Children like tilt over in side of a boat to watch the fish so it’s very lucky that no one was hurt here. Incident like it is quite rare, but very dangerous for yachtsmen.”
Those who know in area, with some fished there for decades, told NBC10 Boston they never saw anything like this before.
“All of surprise, full breech, ten feet out of water, clapping on top of his boyfriend’s boat like his bow goes down basically, into the water, the engine out, full thing pops off whale rolls over in side of everything is fine, but his boat was damaged up” one said the man. “It was crazy, the guy was just in in wrong place in wrong time, that’s all. Pops up bah… right on onion of boy’s boat.
The harbormaster noticed that there were many boats. in in area for recreational fishing due to abundance of fish bait, adding that also what attracts whales area feed.
Crews of Harbor Masters supervised area from 5 am for violation of Marine Mammal Protection Act After a Whale Collision on Friday. At that time, no such violations were identified. of Incident.
The athlete recorded a video of whale rocking the boat off Coast of Massachusetts.
The environmental police have been contacted and are investigating the incident as well as the violation of the MMPA.
