The guys who had a whale land on their boat out in the open seas are luckily fine now -- but in the moment, they saw their lives flash before their eyes ... and we got the full story.
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00:00Set the scene where where are you on the boat and set the scene from your vantage point because it must have just been fishing right shocking we were roughly two miles off the coast of New Hampshire and we're just enjoying ourselves catching a few fish I think Ryland was hooked up with a fish at the time and so he's focusing on that and I just hear him yell from the back of the boat whoa or something like that
00:29and I look back and the whales head is crashing down on top of the engine so essentially the front of the boat goes up in the air and you can see that in the video and then next thing you know I see the back of the boat sinking it's taking on water and I'm like oh no we are we are going down we're not getting out of this
00:48so wait Ryland you actually had a fish on the line at the moment I was closest to the whale at the time probably about three three and a half feet from the head so as Greg mentioned I saw the mouth open up as it was catching bait and then close and when it fell down it went a crunch on the engine and at that point I had a fishing rod in my hand and you can kind of see it in the video and I was basically like the first maybe a second I was just like wow is this really happening
01:16and then after that I was like okay fight-or-flight mode I'm not I'm not fighting my way out of this I got to get that guy you know I got to say Ryland you're really lucky because that if you look at the top of the boat it seemed like over if it had come over it would have just nailed you oh exactly so what I did was as I was fishing you can see me I you slow it down I threw my rod in the water because I was like you know how quick with this fish right and then you know I took a couple steps up and stepped on the
01:45side of the boat and just kind of flew into the water to kind of get away from the boat because I knew it could could have potentially fell on me and then I swam away so it was probably a matter of a couple feet from that from for me hitting that boat