We’re not having fun at someone else’s expense. We’re not. That’s not nice. But is it okay to have a giggle? Because this is a teeny, tiny bit funny. This video–which was posted by a Darren Lucianna–shows a family out on a boat near Lynnwood, Washington when three humpback whales swim under the boat. As you can tell from the video, a woman in the party was not having fun. Apparently she’d read Moby Dick one too many times.
Whales swimming under boats isn’t common, obviously, but they’re most likely just trying to get a better view. “Some individual humpbacks have a lot of curiosity and aren’t afraid of people,” said Ken Balcomb, executive director of the Center for Whale Research. They definitely don’t want to eat you. Or flip your boat. The only question that isn’t answered in all this is what the authorities said when the woman called 911? Most likely, they just told her to calm the hell down and enjoy a really unusual occurrence that not many people get to see.
