Caught on Camera: Amazing Whale Encounter NBC News
go to original February 6, 2013

A woman in a boat just off of Rocky Point, Mexico, watched a whale jump into the air shortly after being struck by a small vessel. (USA TODAY)

ROCKY POINT, Mexico - An Arizona woman on vacation in Mexico captured some stunning images of whales, even getting up close and personal with the magnificent creatures as one of them breached right in front of her boat.

Gillian Panasweicz from Prescott has one eye-popping whale of a tale that's getting a lot of attention. Panasweicz captured candid shots of these whales leaping out of water while on vacation in the Sea of Cortez and posted them on Facebook.

"There's two whales, I think it's like a mother and a baby, they hung around and they were just playing and blowing," Panasweicz said.

The whales were frolicking in the water, and a pack of sea lions nearby dove in and out of the water, playing a game of hide and seek with the whales.

And then she saw a Mexican boat racing towards the marina as it crashed into one of the whales.

"It hit the whale, smacked into the whale," Panasweicz said. "We thought the boat was going into go over, but it didn't, and they managed to right themselves and they carried on going through the marina as if nothing happened."

Panasweicz and her friends said the whale did not look like it was injured. And just before they took off to go back to shore, all of a sudden the whale only 20 feet away, showed off its body and breached in front of them.

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