Whale of a Fight – Video

“Swimming with humpback whales was the most magical, humbling, powerful experience of my life,” Karim Iliya writes, but things turned a bit scary when he jumped into the water in the middle of a fight between four adult males competing for the right to mate with a lone female

This video has beautiful, near stunning, pictures of one of earth’s most majestic creatures.

From the YouTube posting:

“Humpback whales are known to be one of the most majestic mammals on earth, but what happens when a diver winds up in the middle of a whale fight?

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