Divers Have Close Encounter With Humpback Whales

[DiverWire]

(DiverWire) Shawn Stamback and a fellow diver almost got caught between two humpback whales and a tasty school of fish.  The frightening near-miss was captured on video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ut7wK9l9mk Stamback, 39, is the owner of Slodivers, a charter scuba diving company that specializes in diving, spearfishing, and snorkeling in the Morro Bay area on California’s central coast. Fellow diver Jay Hebrard happened to be recording when the incident occurred just off Souza Rock. As the video shows, the water began to churn around the two divers as a large school of sardines raced into the area. Less than a second after, two massive humpback whales breached the water with mouthfuls of fish, just feet away from Stamback and ...
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