Pro Paddleboarder Spots Whale Tail

1. How fortunate he was to be able to witness something so wonderous.... THAT would be something I would remember my whole lifetime!

Posted at 4:42PM on Nov 13th 2009 by Lost Lass

2. A-freaking-mazing!

Posted at 5:59PM on Nov 13th 2009 by ber

3. balls

Posted at 4:49PM on Nov 13th 2009 by balls

4. BRAD PITT'S HARPOONING A WHALE!!!!
This, right after having a motorcycle accident, eating 47 porkchops at a Denny's and having sex with the waitress!!!

Posted at 4:52PM on Nov 13th 2009 by turkey & dress'n

5. FISH

A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic (or cold-blooded), covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species being known from mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) as well as in the deepest depths of the ocean (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish).

Food prepared from fish is also called fish, and it is an important food source for humans.

The early fossil record on fish is not very clear. It became a dominant form of sea life and eventually branched to create land vertebrates.[citation needed]

The proliferation was apparently due to the formation of the hinged jaw because jawless fish left very few descendants.[43] Lampreys may be a rough representative of pre-jawed fish. The first jaws are found in Placodermi fossils. It is unclear if the advantage of a hinged jaw is greater biting force, respiratory-related, or a combination.

Some[who?] speculate that fish may have evolved from a creature similar to a coral-like Sea squirt, whose larvae resemble primitive fish in some key ways. The first ancestors of fish may have kept the larval form into adulthood (as some sea squirts do today), although perhaps the reverse of this is the case. Candidates for early fish include Agnatha such as Haikouichthys, Myllokunmingia and Conodonts.

Posted at 4:53PM on Nov 13th 2009 by KOOKYPEDIA

6. Looks fake to me

Posted at 5:15PM on Nov 13th 2009 by bkaz

7. Zzzzzzzzzzz ... Cool experience - but we didn't need 2 minutes of it - nor his talking. They're lucky they didn't get their butts smacked into the air by those huge, powerful animals!

Posted at 5:53PM on Nov 13th 2009 by snoozing now

8. great video!

Posted at 7:43PM on Nov 13th 2009 by panthergirl

9. FANTASTIC!
I'd like to bag on the usual commentators, but the majesty and wonder of seeing such gargantuan behemoths of the deep almost playfully... ah, nuts. THEY'RE MAMMALS, F-N Kooky! The only one out of 7 so far was Lost Lass, who realizes the wonder and the majesty and blah, blah, blah. Just makes me so angry. Argh! A-holes

Posted at 7:53PM on Nov 13th 2009 by mammilian

10. Glad I watched the video, From the still picture it looked like he was harpooning the animal, What would have made the video a bit more interesting is if a Great White Shark came along to investigate the noise. Then it would have turned into an ACTION VIDEO Then we would have seen the Dude do some serious paddling LMAO

Posted at 7:56PM on Nov 13th 2009 by Homie1Kanobe

11. "of the coast of Gold Coast, Austraya..."
All Australians are drunken, racist, cultureless morons.

Posted at 8:18PM on Nov 13th 2009 by Alan

12. That was quoting Allen Ridak. He should know.

Posted at 8:21PM on Nov 13th 2009 by Alan

13. VERY COOL.

Posted at 8:44PM on Nov 13th 2009 by PUH-LESE

14. Wow and americans say the aussie media are slow .. We actually got this story with pictures and video footage 30 mins after it happened in Sept .. and you're only reporting about it now :)) .. seriously

Posted at 8:44PM on Nov 13th 2009 by Lmao

15. I saw a whale once at Sea World. I didn't sit in the splash zone, though.

Posted at 10:05PM on Nov 13th 2009 by Julie