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Fishermen in Massachusetts experienced a whale shock after a huge humpback body crashed into their boat. The moment was caught on camera when a humpback whale jumped onto the bow of a boat off White Horse Beach in Plymouth on Sunday.
The video shows a school of fish jumping out of the water before a large whale enters the water and crashes into the bow of the boat.
Humpback whale wrecks boat in Plymouth, Massachusetts (Ted Gardziel via ViralHog)
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“After we landed the last fish at 9:38 a.m. our friend suggested we get something to eat and we were lucky. The men fishing from the bow came down, and we were making sandwiches , and it happened,” he said. the fisherman said in a social media post. “We are all very lucky, no injuries, minor damage to the boat and … we all felt bad for the whale, wrong place at the wrong time for all of us. We were hit but we lived another day.”
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The 19-foot vessel sustained light damage to her bow, but was still seaworthy. The boat returned to shore under its own power and no one was injured.
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“We are advising recreational fishermen and people in the area to give the whales space. We ask that you give them at least 100 feet, more is better, to give them their space,” said Allison Ferreria, a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “These whales are unpredictable, they’re big animals, they get upset easily and we wouldn’t want anyone to get hurt.”
Sarah Rumpf is a digital production assistant at Fox News. You can reach her on Twitter at @rumpfsarahc