Breaching Whale Smashes Fishing Boat in Wild Video

The waters off the New England coast are prime territory for whale watching . And while they can be a beautiful sight from afar, sometimes they aren't exactly gentle giants.

New video out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire showed what happened when a small fishing boat came face to face with an angry whale underwater. In a shocking video circulating on social media, the marine mammal breaches and comes down on the boat, capsizing the vessel and sending its passengers into the ocean.

The video was taken from another boat just a few dozen feet away by brothers Colin and Wyatt Yager of Maine. Upon seeing the eye-popping confrontation, the young fisherman on the boat dropped his rod and immediately got behind the wheel to get away.

The identities of the boaters as well as the species of whale are yet to be determined. The waters off New Hampshire can be home to several types of whales including humpback, finback, minke, sei, pilot, right, and blue whales .

"There is a pissed-off whale patrolling the waters off Portsmouth, New Hampshire today," an X post of the video read. "Head on [a] swivel if you’re out there."

The Yager brothers recounted their side of the story to WCVB . Sixteen-year-old Colin first spotted the whale and started taking video of the massive creature. "I saw it go up so I was just lucky enough to be facing the right direction," he said.

Wyatt, 19, saw something was going to happen when the whale breached. "I saw it come up and I was just like, 'Oh, it's going to hit the boat,' and then it kind of started to flip," he remembered.

The teenage brothers swiftly jumped into action to help their fellow boaters out on the ocean. They helped pull the two stranded people out of the water and didn't find any serious injuries upon rescuing them.

It certainly wouldn't be the only recent example of an angry whale. Last year and earlier this year, orcas off the coast of Gibraltar were famously butting into boats in the area. The latest incident in New Hampshire could be another instance of whales seemingly fighting back against humans in their home.