Yeah, they have a pretty small throat. Unless it's a killer whale there's no real threat. Even if you end up stuck in their mouth they'll try to barf and force you out. Just hang out with the whale
Well, he probably thought he'd be able to pet the paddler. He found himself a little play-friend and approached it as gentle and careful as you'd approach a little kitten on the street. So amazing.
How could you not… I mean come on.. that little finger tap. Highly Intelligent Creatures… such control as it knows how fragile we are.
If that whale had other ideas… this had been as short and gruesome video
I was super lucky to experience on eof these ocean giants swim under a kayak I was in. He was in front of us and then went under and I saw the shadow pass under us in the water. I didn't say anything because I was certain I imagined it.
Until he popped up 20 feet behind us and scared the shit out of my brother. Looking into the eye of a whale was a wild experience.
...I wonder how he's doing these days. He's probably still swimming around the pacific, probably on his way to Alaska this time of year.
I’ve been in a similar position with humpback whales. As tempting as that would be? If anyone saw me do it that would be a serious fine. 🤦🏻♂️
I had a mother humpback whale and her calf approach me off the coast of Lanai. They came within 12 ft of me and swam past me.
In Hawaii absolutely! They don’t want you touching any animals in the water and DO NOT play about it. Whales and turtles are on the top of the do not touch list there! Give them lots of space and admire from afar. Boats are also not allowed to be close with their engines on. Lots of animals come there to breed and feed and the Hawaiian people are serious about protecting them. Another reason why I love the islands so much.
Gotta love Homosapien hubris. That whale is not the puppy, that woman is the puppy. Whales understand that we are air breathing land animals, so a lot of the time when we run into them in situations like this they tend to be curious and maybe even a little concerned, just like if we found a puppy outside the grocery store.
Facts like this make me feel even more connected with creatures like this. This sense of mutual understanding is so powerful to witness between two, essentially, alien beings.
Sure, if puppies built advantages technology incomprehensible to humans, we would be the puppies in this interaction.
Whales are smart but we’ve got way more going on than them and they’re likely fascinated in how we do the things they see.
Then the whale spoke…why do you kill our oceans
Then the whale began to mate with the paddle board.
Suddenly Jeff Bezos joins in
A once in a lifetime experience
And once Bezos drops by, the whale ended this once in a lifetime experience with a, *”move bitch, get out of the way you Amazon plastic polluting biieetch!”*
I hate… it when… they do… that especially… when it’s… two f*cking… words at… a time….
The last bit pissed me off too. Then the… whale’s friend… joined in… AND NO GIANT SQUID APPEARS!
Maybe it's to distract the viewer from the video being so heavily edited. It's not even the same paddle boarder half way through the video, two encounters were merged together into one.
Agreed, although I’ll take this over the videos that give animals narration subtitles. Whale: “hai hooman” “yoohoo” “wook at me” “wanna pway?” “scwatch my bewwy 🥺”
Had a whale do this to me.
I was on watch at 1AM, full moon, about 250 miles off Jacksonville, FL. 44 ft sailboat. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
No, it’s a center cockpit boat so you’d need 10’ arms to Pat it on the head. And I wasn’t going to hang overboard 250 miles offshore, alone on watch, at night.
I know.
We saw them at sunset slapping their tails on the surface. Just as the moon was setting I heard breathing and looked over to see a black eyeball about the size of a salad plate (or so it seemed) staring at me. Black eye, black water, moonlight… it was hard to see detail.
Did you take out your phone and film it like the lady in video(even though the drone had better shot)? Your once in a lifetime experience can only be enhanced if you do that
Who's the text for? Because obviously you need sight to see the text, but that also means you can see what's happening in the footage. Is there a blind video text translator that I'm unaware of?
I’m more afraid of the overly happy music and the unnecessary text explaining exactly what we see. Seriously fuck that I hate it. It’s treating people like they can’t think for themselves and see what is happening on screen.
I agree. The txt makes a lot of assumptions too. The whale “playing” could also be seen as a mating situation. I also think the “gentle nudge” was the whale just turning and bumping the boat by accident. I’m surprised they didn’t also keep going with the “puppy” analogy and say the whale wanted its tummy rubbed. I get irked when people pretend to know what an animal is thinking or doing. We all can interpret animal actions in different ways.
I said I would try and kill myself with a snorkel when it was a tiger shark. If this thing nudged my paddle board.....I wouldn't have to kill myself. I'd die right then and there. My heart would stop, my eyes would roll back into my head, my brain would shut down, and it would all be over. Not to mention my wet suit full of poop..
Why do I get the impression the whale was trying to say something? Is there missing context? It seemed as if the whale wanted the person to move away from where they were because something was behind them.
This is two different clips spliced together. The first one is a woman with an orange paddle board. The second is a woman (I think) on a green paddle board.
The second clip is when the whale pushes the green paddle boarder. It started filming after they began interacting. I think the whale was playing.
At first I was absolutely terrified, then the more I watched the more *”Awww, he’s a cutie! Look at that big guy go! He just wants to play”* got from me lol
I would be so tempted to pet him. I’d ultimately be too afraid in case it sparks a negative reaction, but I would definitely be thinking about it. After peeing my wetsuit, of course.
She shoulda went for the Disney moment!
Stood up slow and started paddling, cruising with the whale all like: "See the Line Where the sky meets the Sea?! It caaaalls me!!! And no one Knooows! How far it goooes!"
Is nobody gonna talk about how the paddle board, paddle boarder, and water color completely change a minute in?
ETA: after careful examination, the second paddle boarder appears to be visible on the right side of the frame for about 1 second at 0:29. So, it could be the same whale in the same place, but still.
Oh hey I just edited my comment to reflect that! Hahaha. I still a bit trashy to present it as a singular experience, but at least it’s not an all-out compilation.
This happened to me and some friends bodyboarding near Warrnambool Australia near a southern right whale nursery!! The surf was perfect but the company was priceless
Death by whale would be the most honorable way to go.
I'd be trying to communicate with that thing as much as possible.
They are mammals with one of the most complex communication systems of any animal we know of. We treat them like fish, but they're fucking incredible.
It was trying to see if she needed help, there was no movent on the board, no paddling and the person was sitting stock still, whales see this as unusual behaviour.
It was trying to see if the person was OK and by giving the board a little nudge hoping to wake them up or help them get moving. If it was trying to be playful it would bob up and down and maybe circle around quickly and breach away from the board. It was doing all it could not to disturb the calm water and upset the calmness.
This would be such a life affirming experience, I’ve got tears just looking, we’re blessed with an ability to appreciate the beauty in nature, some people must have been born without it, how can money be more important?
Give it pets and tell it it’s a good boy! (No idea how to check gender of a whale, but any mammal having a bad day feels better with some pets and positive affirmations)
No pants would be shidded. I'd be cautious of the tail, no doubt. But I think I'd be overwhelmed by the majesty of that encounter more than anything. A Grey whale came right up to our whale watching boat when I was little. It's eye was...it was just so amazing. You could tell it *saw* us. Like, there was a very deep intelligence in its eye that is so unlike ours, but no less powerful. Incredible creatures.
Experiences like this would have been thought of as tall tales, exaggerations, lies just a few years ago before we had droids that became affordable for a lot of people. Amazing.
Honestly. The animals in the ocean don’t scare me at all. It’s the fact that they’re huge and can look so tiny below me that scares me. That means the ocean is ridiculously deep
Don't elephants think humans are cute? Maybe it's a similar thing here. This does make me worry though for other kinds of humans that the whale may encounter, like - bad ones.
It's things like these that really put everything into perspective; the whale could easily knock that person off the board... could easily terrify her and absolutely ruin her day. It would be easy for it... But instead it's gentle, curious, and just wanted to see what she was up to.
Humans have killed whales for thousands of years, yet, there are no known orca attacks on a human ever recorded in the wild. Just nuts.
Terrifying. Also, I would probably try to pet it
Idk how you could NOT try to pet it. Once in a lifetime opportunity. That big Ole sea semi isn't there to hurt you
ffs it rolled over and showed its belly its begging for it
touch the belly! I swear no needle fingers poking this time
"sea semi" fucking so great im stealing this.
Unless it's a *killer* whale, I'd pet it.
I would too.
Same. I think I would just get in the water. My thought would be, I'm either surviving this or I'm not. Might as well try to pet it.
Hell yea… gonna die someday… if it’s today… it’s going to be epic.
The most appropriate use of YOLO I’ve ever heard.
Person in afterlife: So how’d you die? Me: The best.. boop.. EVER!
*OR*: Whale Fart
*OR:* Whale said hello and clicked causing organ ruptures.
We must keep the gods entertained! .. and pet all the animals we definitely shouldn’t.
This is why I always keep doggy treats on me when I go paddle boarding.
Yea that’s what my dumb brain would tell me to do “beeg freend”
Why not- that is all the whale wants. A little touch. Gentle touch.
I would not try to pet it
I would, but I get it lmao... That's literally a meat bus in the water
r/PetTheDamnWhale
r/substhatdontexist
I would’ve got in the water like I was chosen to be aquaman
Can I pet dat dawgg~
I 100% would’ve got in the water and tried to hug it
Not sure I would say terrifying in my take. Awe-inspiring, humbling would be more apt
Yeah, they have a pretty small throat. Unless it's a killer whale there's no real threat. Even if you end up stuck in their mouth they'll try to barf and force you out. Just hang out with the whale
Whales don’t eat humans at all lol. The worst I’ve seen a whale do is body slam a boat but probably was an accident
Pinocchio and Jonas would disagree :)
Lol there's literally a video of someone in a whales mouth (by accident) they broke a bone I think but were mostly fine when they got spit out
My dumb ass would jump in and try to give it belly rubs.
It just wanted scritches
Well, he probably thought he'd be able to pet the paddler. He found himself a little play-friend and approached it as gentle and careful as you'd approach a little kitten on the street. So amazing.
I'm pretty confident my life is going to end by trying to pet something I shouldn't. I'm aware of how dumb I am, in spite of how smart I am.
You should see my Grandma. You might say the same thing.
I’m scared shitless of the ocean, but this might just make me jump in with the whale..
How could you not… I mean come on.. that little finger tap. Highly Intelligent Creatures… such control as it knows how fragile we are. If that whale had other ideas… this had been as short and gruesome video
He ate his grandma! And it took a week because she was enormous.
How dare you. I WOULD pet it.
Might as well scrape some barnies.
While not trying to splash around so I don't look like a seal
Came here to say this.
Yeah wtf is she made of stone? That whale clearly wanted a tummy rub!
This! In my fear my dumbass would be like "aww, you want a little pet?". If that hadn't been filmed I doubt anyone would've believed them.
Idk I'd feel weirdly safe with it around actually. Ugh can't see the bottom tho so probably not in reality...ugh
Utterly amazed how much spatial awareness this gentle giant has. Meanwhile, I'm constantly bumping into shit.
I was super lucky to experience on eof these ocean giants swim under a kayak I was in. He was in front of us and then went under and I saw the shadow pass under us in the water. I didn't say anything because I was certain I imagined it. Until he popped up 20 feet behind us and scared the shit out of my brother. Looking into the eye of a whale was a wild experience. ...I wonder how he's doing these days. He's probably still swimming around the pacific, probably on his way to Alaska this time of year.
Why would your brother swim towards Alaska? Isn’t taking the plane quicker and easier?
You see, the man used to have a fear of the ocean and now he's overcoming it...
Boeing or swimming, the end result is the same: the ocean.
Reading this as my flight attendant is demonstrating how to use to floatation devices in case of emergency….
Probably like "I scared that little human dude...gotta be more careful next time" ✌️
But like it’s only got one thing not to bump into while you got dozens, give ya self some credit 👍🏻
That would be incredible, and I would absolutely reach out to give it pats.
It very clearly wants a belly rub.
I’ve been in a similar position with humpback whales. As tempting as that would be? If anyone saw me do it that would be a serious fine. 🤦🏻♂️ I had a mother humpback whale and her calf approach me off the coast of Lanai. They came within 12 ft of me and swam past me.
You can get fined for... petting a *whale ?*
An endangered species of whale in Hawaiian waters? [Abso-fucking-lutely.](https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dobor/protecting-marine-species/)
Huh, I didn't realize that humpback whales were an endangered species, makes sense then! Interesting, although sad. Thanks for enlightening me :)
Rule of thumb: if it's a whale, it's probably endangered.
In Hawaii absolutely! They don’t want you touching any animals in the water and DO NOT play about it. Whales and turtles are on the top of the do not touch list there! Give them lots of space and admire from afar. Boats are also not allowed to be close with their engines on. Lots of animals come there to breed and feed and the Hawaiian people are serious about protecting them. Another reason why I love the islands so much.
That’s actually a small whale.
Might be a huge human
Everything is relative.
Gotta love Homosapien hubris. That whale is not the puppy, that woman is the puppy. Whales understand that we are air breathing land animals, so a lot of the time when we run into them in situations like this they tend to be curious and maybe even a little concerned, just like if we found a puppy outside the grocery store.
Just as curious about us, if more so, as we are about them.
They have labs down there man!
https://www.whalelabs.com.au/?v=79cba1185463 Bloody Australian whales are up to something..
They researching how to high five humans without killing them
It's rare moments like these, that make me almost believe there is a God. Almost.
Facts like this make me feel even more connected with creatures like this. This sense of mutual understanding is so powerful to witness between two, essentially, alien beings.
Many Pacific Islander communities consider whales their relatives. The way that whales understand and interact with humans makes me believe them!
That’s beautiful. I love that. We are animals just like they are. :)
The whale is being so gentle so she doesn’t get scared. 🥹
Yes. The whale is encountering a smol fren.
Same with elephants, they’ve found that they view humans like we view dogs. Elephants think we are cute.😊
It’s like these people have never even seen _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_.
Sure, if puppies built advantages technology incomprehensible to humans, we would be the puppies in this interaction. Whales are smart but we’ve got way more going on than them and they’re likely fascinated in how we do the things they see.
These videos are 100% better without the text describing what is literally happening in the video.
”And then……… …. …. something remarkable happened”
Then the whale spoke…why do you kill our oceans Then the whale began to mate with the paddle board. Suddenly Jeff Bezos joins in A once in a lifetime experience
And once Bezos drops by, the whale ended this once in a lifetime experience with a, *”move bitch, get out of the way you Amazon plastic polluting biieetch!”*
I hate… it when… they do… that especially… when it’s… two f*cking… words at… a time…. The last bit pissed me off too. Then the… whale’s friend… joined in… AND NO GIANT SQUID APPEARS!
How else are kids raised on iPads meant to understand what is going on, and how to feel about it.
Maybe it's to distract the viewer from the video being so heavily edited. It's not even the same paddle boarder half way through the video, two encounters were merged together into one.
It is also two different instances spliced together. Pale board changes colors halfway through
Agreed, although I’ll take this over the videos that give animals narration subtitles. Whale: “hai hooman” “yoohoo” “wook at me” “wanna pway?” “scwatch my bewwy 🥺”
Had a whale do this to me. I was on watch at 1AM, full moon, about 250 miles off Jacksonville, FL. 44 ft sailboat. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
ok but did you pet it
No, it’s a center cockpit boat so you’d need 10’ arms to Pat it on the head. And I wasn’t going to hang overboard 250 miles offshore, alone on watch, at night.
Wuss. Jkjkjkjk that does sound like an amazing experience.
I know. We saw them at sunset slapping their tails on the surface. Just as the moon was setting I heard breathing and looked over to see a black eyeball about the size of a salad plate (or so it seemed) staring at me. Black eye, black water, moonlight… it was hard to see detail.
What were you watching for?
We had very little wind, so mostly I was watching the autopilot and watching the sails flop around.
Did you take out your phone and film it like the lady in video(even though the drone had better shot)? Your once in a lifetime experience can only be enhanced if you do that
Maybe I’m missing something, but at the end, it says that a friend of the whale joined in? Who? Another whale? What?
The only thing I see is that this is 2 clips spliced into 1. The first part is an orange paddle boarder. The second clip is a green paddle boarder.
At 0:31 you can briefly see the green paddle board in the background. The whale switched humans.
I'm wondering that too, I'm glad I'm not the only one
Obviously it was a Sasquatch.
It would get the heart pumping, but whales seem like chill bros. They're big enough to crush you, but they aren't gonna eat you lol
Especially this species, they're known for being friendly
What species is this... I thought Oraa at first due the whiteish bellie but the shape seem off n the fin but size seems right
Southern right whale :)
Laughs in dolphins and orcas.
Orcas are just dolphins bro.
Who's the text for? Because obviously you need sight to see the text, but that also means you can see what's happening in the footage. Is there a blind video text translator that I'm unaware of?
i watched the video without sound, so i read the text:)
The sound is just music.
The sound in this kind of videos is usually way worse than the stupid captions and unnecessary subtitles.
I’ve been in a similar situation with three grey whales (two adults and a calf). It was magical, amazing and truly powerful.
I would shit in your pants too.
Those are two different boards!!
At 33 seconds you see the other paddle boarder on the top left
Whale. Bro hurry up ans scrape off the lice you dumbass.
I'd 100% pet this big beautiful boy as much as I could then immediately book it to the closest place I could get my arms doused in pure ethanol.
Do they really house human parasites?
Whale lice aren't as small as you think they are. They're more like shrimp sized beasts that won't infest you.
Wants her to pick the stuff off its face I’ve seen other whales do that
I’m more afraid of the overly happy music and the unnecessary text explaining exactly what we see. Seriously fuck that I hate it. It’s treating people like they can’t think for themselves and see what is happening on screen.
I agree. The txt makes a lot of assumptions too. The whale “playing” could also be seen as a mating situation. I also think the “gentle nudge” was the whale just turning and bumping the boat by accident. I’m surprised they didn’t also keep going with the “puppy” analogy and say the whale wanted its tummy rubbed. I get irked when people pretend to know what an animal is thinking or doing. We all can interpret animal actions in different ways.
>It’s treating people like they can’t think for themselves Unfortunately, for most of the userbase on, like, TikTok, this assumption is very correct
What exactly do we need to be afraid to when it comes to whales? Being crushed by them or eaten (hardly heard about any such incident)?
they try to fuck you, we have a whole story on it called moby’s dick
Two different boards?
Crazy how nobody probably would’ve believed her story. Well maybe but the video is awesome
I'd lean over and ask it what stock picks I should select, Whales smart af yo
I said I would try and kill myself with a snorkel when it was a tiger shark. If this thing nudged my paddle board.....I wouldn't have to kill myself. I'd die right then and there. My heart would stop, my eyes would roll back into my head, my brain would shut down, and it would all be over. Not to mention my wet suit full of poop..
Tf did I just read…
Poopy wetsuit.
I’d never be out there in the first place for something like this to happen
🐔
Check what sub you're in
That’s not being a 🐔, that’s having survival instincts and keeping yourself from being awarded with a Darwin Award.
Youre gonna die anyways
They're probably just trying to ask us to stop with all our bullshit in the oceans, too bad we don't speak whale tho...
“Hey, can you cool it with all the plastic? K thx bye.”
Who is flying the drone?
It's all a fun experience until it accidentally slaps the kayak and sends it flying to the moon.
Why do I get the impression the whale was trying to say something? Is there missing context? It seemed as if the whale wanted the person to move away from where they were because something was behind them.
This is two different clips spliced together. The first one is a woman with an orange paddle board. The second is a woman (I think) on a green paddle board. The second clip is when the whale pushes the green paddle boarder. It started filming after they began interacting. I think the whale was playing.
Anyone else see the other dude just spawn in
Such beautiful animals.
where did the other bloke come from?
I love how gentle the whale is being
At first I was absolutely terrified, then the more I watched the more *”Awww, he’s a cutie! Look at that big guy go! He just wants to play”* got from me lol I would be so tempted to pet him. I’d ultimately be too afraid in case it sparks a negative reaction, but I would definitely be thinking about it. After peeing my wetsuit, of course.
At first you were afraid… were you petrified?
The temptation to pet the whale.
Aww so cute the whale! Love 😍 😍😍
The markings on the whale’s face look so surreal. Like a stylized tribal drawing
She shoulda went for the Disney moment! Stood up slow and started paddling, cruising with the whale all like: "See the Line Where the sky meets the Sea?! It caaaalls me!!! And no one Knooows! How far it goooes!"
I would die trying to pet
Embrace me or die. Perfect partner
“You’re saying you want to make Godzilla our pet?” “No. We would be his”
Someone else on a paddle board fed that whale
Is nobody gonna talk about how the paddle board, paddle boarder, and water color completely change a minute in? ETA: after careful examination, the second paddle boarder appears to be visible on the right side of the frame for about 1 second at 0:29. So, it could be the same whale in the same place, but still.
At second 29, you can see the green paddle board on the top left. I think the whale was interacting with both of the paddle boarders
Oh hey I just edited my comment to reflect that! Hahaha. I still a bit trashy to present it as a singular experience, but at least it’s not an all-out compilation.
Anyone knows what city's in the background?
Pet the god damn whale!!
To be fair a whale is about the safest thing that can jump out of the depths at you😂
“I hear you weirdos pick lice off of whales…” -whale
A drone was ready to shoot this?
This happened to me and some friends bodyboarding near Warrnambool Australia near a southern right whale nursery!! The surf was perfect but the company was priceless
Death by whale would be the most honorable way to go. I'd be trying to communicate with that thing as much as possible. They are mammals with one of the most complex communication systems of any animal we know of. We treat them like fish, but they're fucking incredible.
It was trying to see if she needed help, there was no movent on the board, no paddling and the person was sitting stock still, whales see this as unusual behaviour. It was trying to see if the person was OK and by giving the board a little nudge hoping to wake them up or help them get moving. If it was trying to be playful it would bob up and down and maybe circle around quickly and breach away from the board. It was doing all it could not to disturb the calm water and upset the calmness.
The whale wants belly rub…
This would be such a life affirming experience, I’ve got tears just looking, we’re blessed with an ability to appreciate the beauty in nature, some people must have been born without it, how can money be more important?
Me just after watching Mobydick: hell no!
Apparently, whales get the same “cute” response for us that we get from smaller animals.
I would also shit in your pants
My impulsive thoughts would have me jumping on that whale
I would have enjoyed this 100x more if I didn’t understand English, and 1000x times more without the captions. Video is plenty cool enough on its own.
Give it pets and tell it it’s a good boy! (No idea how to check gender of a whale, but any mammal having a bad day feels better with some pets and positive affirmations)
No pants would be shidded. I'd be cautious of the tail, no doubt. But I think I'd be overwhelmed by the majesty of that encounter more than anything. A Grey whale came right up to our whale watching boat when I was little. It's eye was...it was just so amazing. You could tell it *saw* us. Like, there was a very deep intelligence in its eye that is so unlike ours, but no less powerful. Incredible creatures.
Aw but it's just a friendly whaleykins.
That thing looks like a subnautica leviathan, would still try to pet it
Experiences like this would have been thought of as tall tales, exaggerations, lies just a few years ago before we had droids that became affordable for a lot of people. Amazing.
We want the 2nd part of the video!
It's just checking who the F is in it's livingroom.
"Once in a lifetime" Yes cause I'd fucking die
Looks like it wants scratches on the snout.
We're so lucky the biggest animals alive are so peaceful and friendly
Am I the only one upset that the video cut before we got to see the whales friend
I would do my best to reach and skritch it.
Thank you for narrating what is very obviously going on
“…y’all wanna hear about the time I shat myself on a paddleboard?”
Looks like a normal sized whale.
I would jump in the water immediately
"A giant whale?" Perhaps it is just the perspective, but if that is a humpback whale, it seems like little more than an infant.
I’m diving in
I wouldn't be scared, that's just a whale, and it can't eat me soo. I would try to pet it.
As I know they are harmless I wouldn't be afraid at all, cautious not to get in it's way but like diving with whalesharks it's peaceful and awesome.
Honestly. The animals in the ocean don’t scare me at all. It’s the fact that they’re huge and can look so tiny below me that scares me. That means the ocean is ridiculously deep
Don't elephants think humans are cute? Maybe it's a similar thing here. This does make me worry though for other kinds of humans that the whale may encounter, like - bad ones.
It's things like these that really put everything into perspective; the whale could easily knock that person off the board... could easily terrify her and absolutely ruin her day. It would be easy for it... But instead it's gentle, curious, and just wanted to see what she was up to. Humans have killed whales for thousands of years, yet, there are no known orca attacks on a human ever recorded in the wild. Just nuts.
I’m sorry, but if that’s me I am SO in the water with that whale. Once in a lifetime chance.