'That was heavy': Breaching whale lands on kayakers.
Two kayakers got their money鈥檚 worth of a whale-watching tour outside of Moss Landing, Calif., early this week when a breaching humpback whale landed on top of them.
But the couple hardly seem fazed.聽One of the kayakers called it 鈥渢he most extraordinary thing to happen to me,鈥澛�
鈥淲e were taken under water by the whale, perhaps in the down-draft. I think it brushed against me while I was out of the kayak ... Neither of us know how we weren鈥檛 ended there and then,鈥� he added.
The episode was filmed by Sanctuary Cruises passenger Larry Plants.
鈥淗umpbacks were coming up next to and in the middle of many kayakers. It was amusing. It鈥檚 all fun and games until someone gets jumped on,鈥� Sanctuary Cruises wrote underneath a . 鈥淭he next thing we knew, this thing launched right on top of these two kayakers. That was heavy.鈥�
鈥淭hey came very close to getting crushed to death by the mighty humpback whale. A full-size humpback can weigh in at 40-tons. That鈥檚 a lot of heavy blubber that would surely flatten a kayaker if the whale had a direct hit,鈥� Captain Michael Sack of Sanctuary Cruises, who witnessed the event, .
The kayakers were tourists from the Britain, on a tour with . The company has since halted its tours.
鈥淲e鈥檝e talked to some biologists and we feel it鈥檚 probably affecting the health of the whales, affecting their ability to feed so we just want to make sure that the whales are safe out there and keep everybody safe here,鈥� Sean Furey, a guide with Monterey Bay Kayaks who was with the couple during the incident, .
Preceeding this incident, there have been of sightings of humpback whales in the Monterey Bay area over the past couple of years. The kayakers were both wearing life vests and paddling one mile from shore.聽
