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Boaters were treated to an unexpected spectacle of whales breaching multiple times in Dorchester Bay. "The whale was just breaching right there," said Jared Hannigan, who was out fishing at the time.
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Two boaters were flung into the Atlantic Ocean when the whale struck the rear of the vessel. They were rescued by good Samaritans, according to the Coast Guard.
Video shows the whale breaching the water and striking the rear of the boat. At least one of the boaters is seen plunging into the water. ocean whale breach animal wild (Courtesy Colin Yager)
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (officially the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary) is an 842-square-mile (636 sq nmi; 2,181 km 2) United States Government-protected national marine sanctuary located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay between Cape Cod and Cape Ann.
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As first mate of Essex, 21-year-old Owen Chase left Nantucket on August 12, 1819, on a two-and-a-half-year whaling voyage. On the morning of November 20, 1820, a sperm whale (said to be around 85 feet; 26 m) twice rammed Essex, sinking her 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of South America.
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