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David Strege

Watch: Whale whips its tail at diver as it protects calf in close call

A free diver in Australia was practicing deep dives and breath holds when a mother humpback whale and its calf came swimming by.

As it passed, the mother whale gave Mitch Capelli a definitive message by taking a swipe at him with its tail.

“Whoa, it tried to hit me,” Capelli says in the video. “Hooly, dooly, that was close…Whoa. Nearly got me with its tail.”

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