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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.
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.
A whale strikes a boat off coast of Rye, N.H. on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, toppling two boaters into the water, who were rescued moments later by the boaters in the foreground.
Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]
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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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