PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Video of the moment a whale came crashing down onto a fishing boat shows a new angle of the encounter – inside the boat itself.
The wild video was shot Sunday morning off the coast of Plymouth.
Ted Gardziel and five others had just finished fishing when one of them suggested they have something to eat.
“I had a sandwich in my left hand and my iPhone recording in the other, since we knew the whales were around,” Gardziel said. “But nobody expected what happened next.”
Those sandwiches may have saved the group from a worse outcome. Massachusetts Environmental Police said there were no injuries to humans or whale, and the boat was able to return to the marina with minor damages.
“We all felt bad for the whale. Wrong place at the wrong time for all of us,” Gardziel said.
Environmental officials have warned boaters to stay at least 100 yards away from whales whenever possible.
They emphasized the importance of doing this off Plymouth, where three juvenile whales have been feeding for at least a week.
“These young whales are engaged in physically active feeding behavior that is very unpredictable, while feeding in a shallow area on menhaden (or “pogies”), a rich and highly abundant schooling forage fish that also attracts striped bass,” Massachusetts Environmental Police said Monday.
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