MUST WATCH: Whale Capsizes Boat In New Hampshire

You don’t see this every day.

A massive humpback whale was spotted capsizing a fishing boat on the Piscataqua River between the border of New Hampshire and Maine.

The unusual event was all captured on video and uploaded on X.

Take a look:

There is a pissed off whale patrolling the waters of Portsmouth NH today. Head on swivel if you’re out there pic.twitter.com/xQPIHs8ZjN

— Ryan Whitney (@ryanwhitney6) July 23, 2024

🔥🚨HAPPENING NOW: A whale patrolling the waters of Portsmouth New Hampshire is attacking boats. The original poster claims ‘they pissed the whale off.’ He is asking everyone to please be careful if you’re in the area pic.twitter.com/4ue6opAbU7

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 23, 2024

Per Whiskey Riff:

As humans, we’ve always known that traveling by sea means we’re sharing the water with Mother Earth’s largest creatures. It’s scary that we know more about space than we do the ocean, and if you’ve never thought about that, you really should. I always wonder if that’s because we’re just too preoccupied with space travel, or if we really don’t want to find out what lies deep beneath the ocean’s waves.

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One thing that we do know lives deep in the sprawling seas is the massive sea beast known as… the whale. In case you didn’t know, the marine mammal species accounts for all 10 of the top 10 heaviest animals in the world. This appears to be a young humpback whale, which can grow up to 60 feet, and weigh up to 80,000 pounds. That’s a whopping 40 tons for those that aren’t great with quick math.

So with that being said, it wouldn’t take a lot for a whale to exert its dominance if it wanted to. For a long time, there’s never been an issue between the giants in the ocean and are man-made vessels. But sometime last year, when all the killer whales started targeting boats, the treaty between whales and humans were thrown out the window.

That’s incredibly evident in this video, which shows a whale off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire blasting out of the sea and slamming down on the back end of a smaller fishing boat. There was nothing the single engine vessel could do to stay afloat. Once the whale came down with a thud on the stern, it capsized and started taking on water fast.

Fortunately, there were some other boats in the area, so hopefully the souls that were aboard the sunken ship were able to swim to safety and escape with their lives. As for their fishing boat… I don’t think it’s salvageable after what happened with this whale.

A whale was caught on tape capsizing a boat off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 😳

(Video from Instagram user bmo_____) pic.twitter.com/hBFbC8J1a4

— Bostonians Against Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) July 23, 2024

Per Bro Bible:

Whales are pretty low on the list of animals you need to worry about running into in the open ocean, but a couple of guys who were tossed from their capsized boat in a viral video documenting their harrowing encounter with one of the animals would probably beg to differ.

Over the past few years, hundreds of vessels in the vicinity of the Strait of Gibraltar have been targeted by a group of orcas that have seemingly started attacking boats for fun, but those apex predators are a very notable anomaly when it comes to how whales typically interact with humans.

With that said, there’s always a chance things can go south when you’re sharing the water with animals that weigh tens of thousands of pounds and can jump dozens of feet above the surface while breaching—a reality that was highlighted by what recently unfolded in the waters off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

On Monday, a humpback whale was spotted making its way down the Piscataqua River between the border of New Hampshire and Maine.

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It’s unclear if it’s the same one in the video below, but it appears a member of the same species was responsible for the wild incident that unfolded when it leaped out of the water and landed on a center console boat that was home to two fishermen who ended up in the ocean after the vessel tipped over after being struck by the whale.