Hear the terrifying mayday call from boaters who watched huge humpback whale breach above ship and sink it

Bystanders made a terrifying mayday telephone aft watching a humpback whale breach and descend a vessel disconnected nan seashore of New Hampshire. 

The incident happened adjacent Odiorne Point State Park connected Tuesday, pinch 2 fishermen, Ryland Kenney and Greg Paquette, being thrown overboard. 

Nearby boats had watched nan segment unfold, pinch 1 man making a mayday telephone to nan U.S. Coast Guard. 

In nan call, nan chartless man tin beryllium heard saying: 'Mayday, mayday, flipped vessel, 2 passengers safe connected different vessel, vessel sinking. 

'There were 2 group connected board, they are presently connected different vessel, they are still retired present pinch us, everybody is safe.'

The antheral caller continues: 'There vessel was deed by nan whale, capsized, they were thrown into nan h2o and pulled retired onto nan adjoining vessel. Boat is presently upside down sinking.'

The seashore defender communications serviceman tin beryllium heard repeating nan accusation and calling for assistance arsenic nan telephone ends. 

Kenney told WMUR-TV: 'He went under, he vanished for a fewer minutes, and past nan adjacent point we know, he conscionable popped correct up connected our transom.'

Kenney and Paquette said that they had seen nan whale earlier successful nan time and had been trying to support their distance. 

Paquette added: 'When I turned, nan whale's caput was already landing connected nan engine. I look down, nan vessel is pitching up, nan transom is going down into nan water.'

Kenney said: 'Everything seemed for illustration successful slow motion. It was really weird. 

'Everyone was like, "Oh, it was 8 seconds. How'd you move truthful fast?'" But it was almost slow motion, for illustration a movie.'

Brothers Colin and Wyatt Yager had been retired sportfishing erstwhile nan whale appeared, and came to nan rescue of nan fishermen. 

The brothers managed to seizure nan whale smashing into nan alloy and it capsizing connected video. 

Colin told nan outlet: 'I had my sportfishing rod correct here, telephone successful my manus and conscionable saw it spell up, and was conscionable fortunate capable to beryllium facing nan correct direction.'

While his relative added: 'I saw it travel up, and I was conscionable like, 'Oh no, it's going to deed nan boat!' and past it started to flip.'

According to a connection by nan US Coast Guard, nan whale was not injured successful nan encounter. 

Sara Morris, of nan University of New Hampshire Shoals Marine Laboratory, said nan whale was apt feeding erstwhile it came into interaction pinch nan boat. 

She said: 'The whales are moving astir underwater and coming up, perchance successful an area different from wherever they went down, and we want to springiness them arsenic overmuch leeway arsenic we perchance tin to debar a business for illustration what you spot here.' 

While Orcas person been known to onslaught boats, humpbacks mostly only attack boats erstwhile curious, alternatively than angry aliases emotion threatened. 

Humpbacks are mostly considered gentle, though group who take to aquatics pinch them are perchance astatine consequence of being struck by nan animal's fluke (tail) if they extremity up swimming into a unsighted spot.