Watch fin whales feeding off California coast next to small boat
Passengers aboard a Newport Coastal Adventure boat off the coast of California this week were treated to nearly an hour straight of two fin whales lunge-feeding on surface krill
Capt. Ryan Lawler shot video of the feeding off the Newport Beach coast while in a fast boat that holds two to six passengers at a time. In the video, the boat appears three times smaller than the whale.
“Today, a good whale watching trip turned into an extraordinary one,” Lawler said in a Facebook post. “We hadn’t seen anything like it before.”
The fin whale, whose body is long and slender, is the second-largest mammalian on Earth after the blue whale.
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This story was originally published January 23, 2018 at 1:48 PM with the headline "Watch fin whales feeding off California coast next to small boat."