Whale jumps out of nowhere during fishing

Info from videographer: While fishing for Striped Bass in Cape Cod Bay (with 100 fisherman on boats) enjoying an awesome time fishing we saw and heard the screams of excitement from boaters nearby seeing a whale or whales surfacing in the area, all where hundreds of yards away from us all morning. After landing the last fish at 9:38 am, our friend suggested we have something to eat and lucky we did. The men fishing from the bow came down and we were just idling along, making sandwiches and it happened. Prior to this, the last whale we saw was over 300 yds away a few minutes earlier. I had a sandwich in my left hand and my iPhone recording (9:53 am) in the other since we knew the whales were around but nobody expected what happened next...

We're all are lucky, very lucky, no injuries, minor damage to the boat and we powered back to the marina on our own. We all felt bad for the whale, wrong place at the wrong time for all of us. We all got bumped around but went on to live another day. Amazing that an animal that large was in such shallow water (30') so close to shore breech feeding on Menhaden. We never saw it coming, my comment in the video was me referring to a school of Menhaden way out in front of us, not the school trying to hide under our boat.

Filmed in cape cod bay in Massachusetts USA

[jibril]

That’s kinda far away from the Maasaai Mara

[runonbun]

Beautiful 😍. Superb. Is the whale hurt ?

[vipahman]

Well it didn't jump out of nowhere. All the boats were crowding its dining table. C'mon people, give nature some space.

[RogueXyZ]

A W E S O M E ! talk about your once in a lifetime moment!

[pvfeBAx]

That's why I don't go out on boats, I'll stay ashore and look at the water from a distance, thank you very much.

[ZettMamp]

The whale is at home and here are humans saying whale jumps out of nowhere!

[BrandonCiCi]

Forget the fisherman’s condition, how about the whale? I hope it wasn’t hurt to bad. ❤

[markjohnson]

It's just letting you know who's in charge.

[miller]

Did he get to eat his meal? Were any ppl injured? Where was this at.? I hope the whale 🐋 wasn't hurt-ya know there seemed to be a lot of boats there in the area!

[hollymcreynolds]

And dude didn't drop his phone. He kept filming.

[Riskyk]

well deserved. That's there home and their space.

[kachoenkiemaster]

Well it didn't jump out of no where, did it?
You're in his house so you popped out of no where🤣🤣🤣

[leasebergfladstad]

Did the sink when the humpback whale accidentally hit the boat?

[Bawayuvraj]

you're very fast masai, jungle to ocean

[melissamcclain]

Wow seemed strange to see Massachusetts on the map instead of areas of Africa we are accustomed to watching nonetheless was an awesome animal sighting!!

[sandrasillery]

Those boats are way too close together. If you don't want your boat smashed then give them room in their own home. Hope the non-critical thinking humans are all right as well as the whale.

[BlazedBob]

Holy shit if someone was fishing or tanning on the front of that boat.. 💀

[selfiekroos]

The good ol' whales of the savannah!

[Powerarmed]

It was no iceberg that made the Titanic sink...

[linc_liz]

Basically, keep out of my food…give me room…taking all my meals…🤨🙄🙄