Amazing Humpback Whale

The thrilling footage was captured by tourists on board a boat off the coast of the city of Quepos, in the western Costa Rican province of Puntarenas, on August 30. The area is known as a prime site for whale-spotting but no one could have expected to have an encounter quite as close as the one captured on film, even though this is the best time of the year to spot cetaceans in the Pacific ocean.