Boaters speak out after video shows whale slamming vessel

Greg Paquette and Ryland Kenney were onboard when a whale breached the surface of the water and fell directly onto their boat near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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[loveobviously]

The whale 🐳 is saying get the hell out of my house!

[Capricorn-]

Oh, those kids helped!? That’s good to know. I thought that kid was like “Oh h3ll no! We are outta here!” 😂😂

[mm.f]

Can someone please interview the Whale? I want to hear it's perspective

[Ella]

This was a "F_ck around and find out" situation. They were too close as are the other boats around the whale.
Give the mammals space. Don't crowd them.

[moshkhal]

The whale has the right to defend herself

[dantespeak]

"Jaws ain't got nuthin on me".

[Cchouette]

Areas where whales breed are protected. The presence of these fishermen was not desired by this whale and Nature did the rest: Well done!

[Quipson]

These news channels don't care the fishing boat was flipped back over, towed to shore and still seaworthy.

[hellygeer]

Colin & Wyatt are heroes. And good fishermen too. They're parents must be very proud.

[mightywarrior]

I guess you can say they needed a bigger boat....

[MayOdinGuideYou]

Whale: Enough is enough killing us water creatures for seafood!!

[christinerhyne]

Another news station focused on the guy wearing a stupid hoodie! Just because the hoodie had DAYTON on the front. WTF??😮

[bribengal]

But we can't get any good alien encounter videos.

[HeatherBDentureDiVa]

Holy crap! This actually is common. But between sharks and all that im glad other boaters were around

[grumpyoldlady_rants]

And no one is wearing their life vests…

[danmcfaull]

Going to be a very interesting insurance claim 😂

[MrsHotrod]

Can you please tell them the truth? This is NH. The whales are going crazy from the continued Humm of the wind turbines and the floating fiberglass that's in the water from the failed turbine and the oil & fuel slicks from the wind turbines themselves. You really need to start telling the truth. Cover how Shell and Chevron are backing out of the Ocean Wind Turbine and selling these to the next highest bidder because of the Wind turbine failure rate. Also, huge amounts of debris and fiberglass were washed ashore and was also found in the fish.

[KurilianCanine-rxtf]

My opinion is if the whale was aggressive he would have continued to attack the boat . My opinion either a toy or the boat was right under the whale and the whale surfaced tipping the boat over

[captainobvious]

Did they get insurance info from the Whale?

[bri]

The earth is a wild place, not just a playground for humans.