“I dream about seeing whales up close. But not this close,” said Anchorage resident Kevin Williams, who was nearly knocked off his paddleboard last week in an encounter with a humpback whale.
Humpbacks are not known to show any aggression towards humans and typically try to avoid them, Teerlink said. But close encounters sometimes occur, particularly while the whales are preoccupied with other activities such as eating — which they do about 20 hours a day.
“There’s so much mass there that even, you know, a subtle swipe of a pectoral fin could really injure or kill a human,” Teerlink said., it’s unlawful for boaters or paddlers to intentionally get within 100 yards of a humpback whale off the shores of Alaska. In certain situations, like the one Williams found himself in, that is not always possible, Teerlink said.
Her advice for anyone in a similar situation: “Give ‘acoustic cues’ to the whale to let them know that you’re there; so, banging on the top of a paddleboard, something like that would help generate noise into the water to help clue the whale into where you are.”
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