Scuba Dan posts some fun diving videos on social media, and one of his recent videos shows what one commenter called a “hump-scare.” In the footage, Dan is waiting for a large animal to appear, and he doesn’t know what it is until it nearly knocks into him. Surprise, it’s a humpback whale.
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“The suspense of diving is all part of the experience!” wrote Scuba Dan in his Instagram post sharing the video. “In some oceans anything can turn up at any point . . . and sometimes you wont see it coming.”
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Dan explains in his caption that he was diving in South Africa near a place called White Shark Alley, filming a sardine run. He saw a ominously large shadow beneath him in the murky water—too large to be a great white, he writes in a text overlay.
After a tense few moments of waiting, the animal reveals itself, and nearly pummels Dan in the process.
Watch a humpback whale nearly slam into a diver here:
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