Close Encounters of the Giant Kind | National Geographic
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Brian Skerry describes the exhilaration of an up-close encounter with a curious, 45-foot-long right whale.
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Sadly the whale didn't have a camera to relate this encounter to other whales, nobody would be believing him :(
inam korimbocus you’re absolutely right, it’s a shame we never invest thought and time into the whale after it leaves , all anyone ever wants to do is see the whale , but do they really feel and understand the whale ??
no , they do not .. and they never whale
kodak boppin this comment is underrated
They have inbuilt cameras,thats why they make clicking sounds. Then they will transmit the images through their bluewhaletooth.
Aww
Bruh
That whale's like "Excuse me, I'm trying to find the nearest Krusty Krab"
Underrated
lol that too
I will be there at the same time as the one I have is that I have is a las 6 30 until you get back and we can go from there o a little more than 3 45 a las niñas donde la
Ok
Scuba drive like” No this is Patrick”
AWWWWW! The whale was probably wondering what the hell that "little thing" was standing up in the bottom of the ocean floor! LOL!
Or.. It might 've guessed it's just whale poop and don't want to freak out seeing it.
The whale had heard stories, from gold fish that had survived being flushed down the toilet, of small mysterious human like like creatures that stood still at the bottom of the tank and blew bubbles 24/7. The whale never believed those legends, until this day! ;-)
George Jose ha ha!!!!!
I wonder if the whale was wondering how delicious this thing could be...
Most marine life are curious about humans because usually divers are in scuba gear, and they look far different than anything else an ocean animal has seen in their entire life. The experience is exhilarating for both species.
I was snorkeling in Hawaii just a few days ago and a whale family came up to me and my dad. Truly an amazing experience.
***** they're literally all over the place over there. I saw a 50 ft humpback while i turned around once when i was snorkeling. Scared the shit outta me.
TGNproductions24 oh my god that sounds ABSOLUTELY terrifying!!!!!! What went through your mind when that happened omg??? Are they dangerous? That sounds like a terrifying and dangerous situation to be in!!!
Flowers osdfv It was far out in the distance so it wasn't so bad hahah. The tour guide just told us to get back in the boat. They're really not terrifying at all. The only thing scary about them is their sheer size. Otherwise, they're such peaceful and majestic creatures. Rather be in the water with them than a shark any day!!!
TGNproductions24 That's a heck of a story though! Seriously, what an adventure! xD oh god I would most definitely crap myself
Thanks for sharing your comment!
Hannah N awwww!!! I’m feeling jealous now!!!))
0:54 That diver brain must be thinking "I am not food, I AM not food, I AM NOOT FOOOD"
whales eat plankton, not divers.
vote Dolphin for president. spread fish, not hate!
+Dolphin For Presidency 2016 anything bigger than us we naturally think it's gone eat us....I kno I do lmfao
FREE WILLY
+Dolphin For Presidency 2016 Not all whales eat plankton. For example humpback whales eat krill and small fish.
they still have echo-location and know that you're not a fish. That's why it came down, to see just what the heck is this thing in my backyard.
How can anyone kill something as amazing as that?
Descendant of Kraff same as you ppl kill gentle cow
ayush kumar I think killing anyone animal is bad. not just cows.
What an idiot. There's a major difference between killing a cow and a whale. One isn't endangered you know!
you are trying so hard to find an excuse for Japanese. Clearly, you don't understand why people domesticated animal like chicken, cow, sheep. Those animals are for food, not damn whale.
ayush kumar you sound really dumb, you know that right?
It's hard to imagine having your mouth above your eyes..
Lmao
PJ MasterDiddy try eating upside down
One of the wiser quotes from Confucius
+PJ MasterDiddy or is it just swimming upside down =D? But seriously would it even make a difference since it's always swimming? it can spin upside down and boom his mouth is below it's eyes.
reminder: No idea what that is.
glad its you in the shot, not me. were it me, there would just be a brown cloud of shit and you wouldn't be able to tell there is a human there…or maybe even a whale.
Same here!! :D
It would only be brown around you and the whale? If that were me in there, all of the world's oceans would be tinted brown within 10minutes, every submarine in the world would have zero visibility within
15 minutes, all marine life would die off within 20 minutes, mile high tsunamis of shit water would begin battering the coastlines of every continent in the world within 25 minutes, stretching as far as 300 miles inland, casualties would be in the hundreds of millions, and all the world's oceans would remain brown and contaminated with shit for approximately 400,000,000 years.
Matt Steiger Your sir, Shit a lot.
Barkeroni LMFAO XD
Matt Steiger LMFAO! ah that made my day
You should have waved at it, then hugged it!!!
Even though whales are friendly towards humans he was probably a bit to excited ETC to actualy think about doing it.
Hahaha... yeah! :)
Mike Kollin
And besides going forward trying to hugg it near the mouth can actualy be dangerous, not because it would try to eat you or attack you, but simply because of its giant size which means it can hurt you even if it was not intentional.
hahaha... I still think he should have swung up the side and gave him a big ole hug... :)
Mike Kollin
:)
I can't even begin to imagine how humbling an experience like that would be. Your narration of the whale movements and the fact that it is thinking and actually looking at you while you do the same is really something that should cause people to pause and ponder a moment.
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This dude got more balls than a pool table!
Hahaha
Bahahaha
José Séina Boricua lolol baddest comment here
Bigger than the football as well ! xD
VERY WELL PUT!
Whale are gentle creatures
Encountering a blue Whale is like encountering a T-rex in modern time, except you may stand a 90% chance of surviving an encounter with a Blue Whale.
This was a right whale
Hodor actualy theres a small danger, its a masive animal and if by some chance you are standing on its way it could kill you getting hit by that beast, bt its a ver small chance and i honestly never heard of it happening.
90%? seems low.
Amber Ridgdill shut up smartass...
Amber Ridgdill How am I a dumbass?
My question is why is there 1 thousand dislikes? People are weird
I agree with u 👌
It was a fake
because they expected a video
They weren't there..
***** they're
Brian Skerry, you are amazing.
I had the good fortune of meeting this guy on a National Geographic cruise years ago, great stories, meaningful lectures, huge respect.
Really cool! My heart was pounding just listening to the story and imagining it.
Even though it's was harmless, I'd still shit myself out of fear
This guy is my hero! He takes the most amazing photographs. Hope to achieve even just 1% of what he does.
This photo has been my desktop photo for over a year!
+TheMrcooll Yep, love it.
What an amazing experience to be standing at the bottom of the ocean and a living submarine approaches you.
Omg, my life would be complete if a whale acknowledged me and interacted with me in any way
I don't think I could have stopped myself from going to pet the whale
I loved hearing you describe how you felt. That is always my question when I see these encounters. It seems so magikal and life changing on one hand but terrifying and dangerous in the other!
I’d love to hear more 🐋
You explained definitely how I would feel
I'm in Australia, and will be going to do this in Queensland. by the off 2022.
He's right, a submarine but it's thinking and it's eyes are following you ... Omg I can only dream of such an experience with these curious, gentle giants!
I saw these photo's a few years ago and they are awesome! I just want to say to Brian, no need to freeze your ass off in the cold Southern Ocean to get up close with a Southern Right Whale. My hometown, Hermanus, South Africa is a prime spot to view these great animals up close. I get to see them (and hear them) most days when they visit this coast from June till November. On 6 December this year, Dr. Sylvia Earl, founder of Mission Blue, will inaugurate the Cape Whale Coast Hope Spot by unveiling a plaque 10m under the water near the Old Harbor in Hermanus. The cliffs around the Old Harbor offers some of the best land based whale watching in the world, and it is possible to come within 30m of these awesome creatures with your feet still firmly on dry land.
"Hey, guy, what's going on? Can I be in the picture too :D?"
It's pretty cool to have a wild creature approach you with nothing but curiosity in its mind, but I would have been spooked at the same time! But... I would also want to give it a pat on the nose. Whales are so cool!
No reason to be scared of it. They're very self aware of their own size in relation to ours, and would never intentionally harm someone.
Brett Perry Intimidated by the size, then. I mean, before I started riding horses, I was all "GAH SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ME! ;-;"
What an Amazing Image of an Incredible Creature!!
The Whale: "So do you have any like, reverse scuba gear that will allow me to walk on the surface?"
HEAVY LIFT HELIS!
Why isn't anyone talking about that pacman on the whale?
Ha! Pac-Man....classic
i just noticed that:)
Underrated comment! Did not even notice the pacman hahahah
Thanks for pointing that out! Once you see it you cannot unsee it.
A M A Z I N G ! ! !
The most biggest animal
And still so delicate and gentle...
When it's likes to....🐋🐳🐳
I'm a Marine Biologist and worked with Brian and the team on this project, and I can confirm it is a genuinely real photo- no photoshop. If you look closely you can see me inside the shark costume trying to keep it steady.
it's a shark not a whale and your joke sucks
Bascorasco u mean its whale not a shark? and his joke really sucks balls.
Aurataku Uchiha haha yeah I messed that up
Bascorasco It's a shark costume, and I'm inside it. What 'joke' are you referring to?
that is a whale dumb ass
I find it strange yet touching that even though we exploit these intelligent oceanic giants beyond belief, they seem to regard us as friends
Nat Geo! Great job with this - and thanks to the photographer (and assistant and whale too!) for taking us to that moment.
beautiful, My favorite animal is the blue whale. I literally cry every time I see videos or hear their sounds
if you cry when you hear their noises you need to see a doctor
Apply Neosporin to burns.
wanna hang out sometime?
K Den 😂k
I cry too.... Outta fear and I pass stools when I see Pearl from Spongebob
Wow, what an incredible experience. Whales are such magnificent and beautiful creatures.
I wish I can experience like that. Just you and the gentle giant in a vast sea. It must be something that mere words cannot describe 😃
The only wild animals that have ever approached me have been seagulls, and just if I had bread T_T
lol
I dunno why I keep getting approached by pigeons. What a shitty life...
Move to Australia & taht will change lol one of my neighbours locks her door whenever there's lizards around, another just shooes them outside when they come into his living room to watch tv with his dog. The brush turkeys seem to like my roof (and sound like a herd of elephants up there lol) the possums like another neighbour's roof (well brush tail, the ring tails like the BBQ on a different neighbour's veranda) The tawney frogmouths like to sit on the "no standing" street sign & watch everyone pass by, the noisy minors swoop everyone, the magpies only swoop the postman, the lorrikeets wake me up at 6am everymorning knocking on the window while eating their bottlebrush breakfast - that's if the kookaburras didn't wake me up at 5am or the koels at 4am. Wildlife here seem to enjoy people even more than people enjoy them & approach everyone for all sorts of entertaining reasons :)
It's so beautiful to be a whale, you can travel all around the world without a visa and no one will bother you
Except you can easily become disorientated and beach yourself
What is your profile picture
"Get the picture, or no ones gonna believe this."
Why not video? You make the trip to see whales, and you bring a picture camera?
i was thinking the same thing, imagine how amazing the video of this would of been
Because he's a photographer.
he came with a camera not video camera
Well the National Geographic magazine is a magazine, so presumably photos are better than videos for that! (and that's the bit that people actually pay for, unlike the internet)
9[]11
I'm a photographer, this picture is one of my favorites of all time. Love'it.
They should have given you a purple heart for your valor man!
Amazing picture!
Beautiful
Oh my goodness,I Wouk did have been so thrilled,what an incredible experience.
so many people here seem to think this is fake, why? is seeing a whale really that hard to believe? its not like he saw the loch ness monster or anything, he just ran into whale, it happens
I just can say OH MY GOD!!!
How can you dislike this...?
Imagine having that enormous animal around you and realizing that its aware of its size. thats what fascinates me the most. Beautiful
The only way to experience things like this amazing random encounter is to get out there on your kayak or in your divers suit and get out there often. Quit dreaming about it and do it. I get exhilarated just Kayaking with 20 or so dolphins jumping around my boat, or chasing after a pair of pilot whales. Something like this would probably bring me to tears. It's not going to happen in front of a TV set people. Got to get out there.
Not sure if this is a real pic, but if it is and I was that dude I would have shit my pants for real.
It is real! He's a Nat Geo photographer...and yes, haha...I would react the same way as you would or would even die of heart attack if it happens to me
You and me both buddy lol.
That is amazing.
What a privilege to see this exquisite animal. The curious thing for me is how anyone could possibly dislike the clip.
I know it's old, but 8-1-7-2
I wanna do this at least once in my lifetime ‼️❕❕
i wish i could do something like this but i have a huge fear of open water.
i can only go out as far as my feet can reach the bottom...
Jonathan Canfield damn. that's nothing. Yeah it think snorkeling around pretty coral reefs with friends is a good start.
Actually the most sea creatures that attack are where you can still stand in the water.
Yolo Swaggins its not sea creatures i am scared of. its just the openness of the water.
like yea if i saw i shark i would be scared but i am not going be scared of the possibility of one.
its like people who are scared of the dark when they know there isn't anything there. its just the unknown that is scary.
Jonathan Canfield I had the same feeling when I was younger and hanging upside down on the jungle gym with my feet in the air and I would look "down" and see the sky beneath me and it scared the crap out of me lol
+Jonathan Canfield interesting I think thats a pretty understandable fear but I don't know how to get over it because there really is nothing in reality that could be dangerous about open water. Maybe try taking a scuba-diving course and going on a few not so deep dives. Maybe getting comfortable and capable underwater will give you the confidence of swimming anywhere with no fears.
Mammals of the sea. Whales and dolphins alike are highly psychic creatures. It's why they are used so often in healing therapies. What an amazing chance to have such a close encounter with such a beautiful entity.
I would've turned the ocean yellow..
Two things I'd love to experience in my life: meeting aliens and swimming with whales, orcas and dolphins. I'd probably be shitting my pants but I'd still want to do it
I could do without the dolphins, they appear to be a little more unpredictable than orcas or whales. They have actually attacked and killed people in the wild.
electric_magnetic You can meet some "aliens" or extraterrestials if you connect with Dr. Steven Greer and his Disclosure Project.
electric_magnetic "Exactly, that's what I would love to do myself"...I really think swimming w/all those different marine animals would be very possible,but not to sure about the Aliens, "I'd do it in a Heartbeat"
Apples. "No kidding"?????
I think the first one would be a horrible idea. Next thing you know, you're probed with eggs and a microchip
why am i not able to find a good video of someone swimming (up close) with a blue whale? Why is that so hard to find? I am sure there are some humans out there who are crazy enough to do it.....
cause blue whales are very shy...other whales seem to be more curious about people and seek them out...blues go the other way...
CyndyNeg
Those are some very clever whales...
:(
google perhaps?
CyndyNeg
excuse me..!! M a blue whale and m not shy..duhh
Absolutely amazing. Not too many photos can beat that, can they?
He's just doing the same thing you would if you caught a whale walking through the Nevada desert in July.
I dream of doing this. I wonder how I could do it though.
Go underwater
lettersfromhelen genius
+Soundillusions94xyz get a scuba-diving certificate and start going on dives. its an awesome and addictive hobby!
I really do worry what's happening to the world when I read the comments here!
He's a MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHER!!!!!!!! He's being paid to take PHOTOS NOT VIDEO!
Not being a videographer does NOT make his encounter fake!
Beautiful, wise, compassionate creatures
Just a picture??? why dafaq did you not shoot the video??? so confusing. Hope its not a photoshop.
No bullshit, my teacher at school is the guy in the picture next to the whale at the first 5 secs of the vid! He was telling us about it in an assembly! Crazy guy!
really ? because thats my pastor
Really? Because that's my gynecologist
+Dylan Halford Ask him why he didn't film it
The reason he didn't film is because the crew never had the rights to film, only pictures therefore only had an under water camera to take. It may be hard to believe but you can believe what you want, he had all the proof from pictures on the boat with the guy in this documentary and the wetsuit he used in this very photo. Legend.
Id pay to do this.
Should have taken a video.
he's a magazine photographer!
This is amazing. Whales are just astounding creatures.
Cool story bro.. wheres the vid?
I can see that nearly 2,000 Japanese people have seen the video
Well that was disappointing
This is an incredible story behind one of the most awesome and famous photos ever taken by world famous photojournalist Brian Skerry, for National Geographic as told by Brian, himself. It's only "disappointing" to an IDIOT.
Yea, whatever. I expected a video not a god damn photo
+simona Yeah, whatever. This IS a video about the "god damn photo" and you're a goddamn ignorant IDIOT with no goddamn critical thinking skills, lacking the goddamn ability to appreciate an incredible, award winning photo and the AMAZING goddamn story behind it. But considering you have a goddamn IQ of 50 and dropping, your dumb comment and ever dumber reply are very predictable.
If this fascinating goddamn video interview with Brian Skerry about this goddamn incredible and powerful still photo is "disappointing" to you, I strongly suggest that you goddamn better not ever reproduce, because you're likely to be goddamn disappointed in your goddamn litter. ROFL
+Marathonracer lol sorry, dear, but I'm not gonna read all of this
+Marathonracer lmao you're crazy
While on a deep sea fishing excursion several years ago in Turks & Caicos, I was blessed to witness a pod of humpback whales as well as a Female humpback with her calf at her side. They all breached the water, it was quite a sight to see and something I'll never forget. Amazing, beautiful creatures. 😍
Simply amazing. I need an opportunity for my TROP to capture a shot like this.
My childhood dream was to grow up and become a wildlife photographer for National Geographics and then real life happened and now, well I enjoy taking photos around where I live.
My grandson told me the other day that I am his INSPIRATION for studying to become a professional photographer! He is enrolled at University of Las Vegas....I was not only emotionally moved but It also feels good to know.... "Hope springs eternal"!🙃
Cindy S Hope it all goes well with your grandson!
Wow. What an incredible experience. An ENORMOUS creature closing in to have a look.
W O W...W O W....Brian, I cant even BEGIN to imagine your heart-thumping/ mind boggling t h r i l l....I know it's now seven yr's after 'the fact,' but thank you so much for sharing this unbelievably exciting footage...Probably a once in a lifetime experience...How fortunate you were...
I've stood next to elephants and other big mammals. Its a very overwhelming feeling, I'm a diver too and I can't imagine diving next to a whale like this. It must feel remarkable !!
So very lucky to have experienced this! Such magnificent creatures!!
This is like becoming buddies with a locomotive.
How many divers can say they have had this beautiful underwater meeting? Hope to experience something like this some day. You 2 are the luckiest of the lucky. That whale could have ran off, instead, he chose to check you 2 out w/out the fear other mammals have of humans. Thumbs UP !!!!!!!!!!Thanks for sharing. Got any new pics since then?
What An Amazing Picture......
Spectacular, I don't think I could keep my calm like that. Fainting in the ocean, whale goes tell his family and friends about me (grin)
I love wildlife, what a magnificent photo op!
8 1 7 2:
My brain is sub-Antarctic, and it's thinking: GIANT WHALE
What an amazing encounter.
Amazing.
Beautiful.
It's just a still photo, yet still stunning and wish I had such an experience!
Amazing juxtaposition! Speaking the obvious here. Very cool. We can all feel a little what it's like to be that close to a giant by watching your video... and eating chips. Thanks nat geo and photographer guys.
your description made me feel like i was there. sounds like an amazing experience
Gorgeous Southern Right whale. Their facial markings are so striking.
WOW that's amazing
This has to be one of the most amazing photo's anywhere in the world...
I’ve swam with whales twice in my life. It’s an experience you never forget. I want to do it again one day before it’s too late...
Hope u won an award for that photo..breathtaking just to look at!
Whale thinking: "The last ones the shell was really chewy. I think I'll pass on this one."
Awesome
Beautiful moment with a magnificent animal, what a treat. I love this picture!!! 💙💙🐳🐋
this has to be the best picture ever taken in human history
My Brain: Don't swallow me please.
His brain: Don't screw up and get the damn picture!!!