- ITV Report
Divers' dramatic escape in near miss with 50 ton whales
A group of friends who were snorkelling got the shock of their lives when two humpback whales breached the surface to gulp down a school of fish.
In an incident that has to be seen to believed, the divers were just yards away from being swallowed themselves when the five storey tall, 50 ton mammals, surfaced.
The three friends were just 2.5 miles off the central coast of California.
Diver Jay Hebrard said: “Three foot difference one way or the other and we could have ended up with a completely different story."
The trio have traveled the world watching sea life, including with dolphins in Tasmania, but said they could never have expected to get so close.