Video: California Paddleboarder Nearly Swallowed by Whale

   12.07.15

Video: California Paddleboarder Nearly Swallowed by Whale

A humpback whale almost got a mouthful of paddleboarder off the coast of California.

A paddleboarder was cruising off near the beach in Santa Cruz, California when a whale breached right next to him. The man was obviously startled, but he somehow managed to stay on his board.

If the whale had been just a foot or two closer this would have been a very different video. Even though humpback whales exclusively eat krill, they still weigh thousands of pounds and they could potentially injure a human.

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