Posted on 09/03/2015 8:59:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A big blue whale photo bombed a reporter's live television shot.
Then the TV host got excited, very excited.
The surprise moment was caught during Steve Backshall's live interview on BBC One for "BBC Big Blue Live." Both Backshall and whale expert Dorris Welch paused to take in the glorious moment.
"When I started my career, when I started filming wildlife just 16 years ago, if someone said go and film a blue whale I would have said they were crazy," said Backshall. "This is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever seen live."
The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on earth, measuring up to 100 feet long with a tongue weighing as much as an elephant, according to National Geographic.
The live shoot took place at Monterey Bay's National Marine Sanctuary in California. BBC One captured views of the blue whale from above in a helicopter.
After taking numerous breaths at the water's surface, the whale dove back down into the water to feed.
"Just awe inspiring. I don't mind admitting to a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat," commented Karen Forbes on BBC Earth Facebook post.
Why no whale pic?
“You’re gonna need a bigger bat!”
In homage to a previous BBC programme of note: “No one ever expects The Spanish Inquisition!”
Still, I’d love to be surprised like this! WONDERFUL!
bat = boat... sigh...
Gotta be careful lately, of being snuck up on during live interviews...
They look as excited as Tea Partiers who just heard Pres. Obama has been impeached, forced to move his family out of the White House by nightfall, and report to jail by 8am the next morning.
The Facebook post has been removed...probably looking for a bidder on it.
Its Monterey/Moss Landing, based on the smokestacks in the background.
The wookie declined to pose...
You say boat now but . . .
They were releived it was not a sperm whale.
That would have been a mess.
Wasn’t he a lovely speaker even as he was so excited?
I wish Americans were trained in school with those skills.
And, what a perfectly shaped whale.
Can we assume that Bill is NOT at the end of that leash?
My eyes! What did we do to deserve that?
We got her when a bunch of fools voted for that “Blue Plate Special” back in the early 90s.
It was a Blue Plate special, not a Blue Whale special! Read, people, read!
And how interesting the horizon is. Flat then rounded? Which is it? A fish eye lens.
0:50...talk of the Devil (w/flat horizon)
0:52...whale (w/curved horizon)
Sorry, just ties in with the flat Earth information I've been looking into.
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