Scuba Dan posts some enjoyable diving movies on social media, and one in every of his current movies reveals what one commenter referred to as a “hump-scare.” Within the footage, Dan is ready for a big animal to look, and he doesn’t know what it’s till it practically knocks into him. Shock, it’s a humpback whale.
“The suspense of diving is all a part of the expertise!” wrote Scuba Dan in his Instagram put up sharing the video. “In some oceans something can flip up at any level . . . and typically you wont see it coming.”
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Dan explains in his caption that he was diving in South Africa close to a spot referred to as White Shark Alley, filming a sardine run. He noticed a ominously massive shadow beneath him within the murky water—too massive to be an awesome white, he writes in a textual content overlay.
After a tense few moments of ready, the animal reveals itself, and practically pummels Dan within the course of.
Watch a humpback whale practically slam right into a diver right here:
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