Jamie Mitchell & The Whales
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Jamie Mitchell has the world buzzing again, but this time it’s due to his amazing run in with a pod of humpback whales. Eight time world paddleboarding champion Jamie Mitchell told news.com.au he was out filming a pilot for his coming documentary, Living in Liquid, when a pod of up to five humpbacks surfaced, and started following him off Tweed Heads at about 7.30am (AEST).
Get the story straight from Jamie….”How do I start… Well I pretty much had one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in the ocean yesterday… I was out doing some filming off the Gold Coast/Tweed Border paddling on my Stand Up when a pod of whales decided to come play with me… I won’t say too much but lets just say it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I’ll remember it till the day I die.”
“We were just out on the water paddling around and all of a sudden, boom, a whale breached about 100m away from me,” Mitchell said. “I thought that was pretty cool and then all of a sudden another whale came up right in front of me. “At the start it was sort of scary, I got goosebumps and the adrenalin started flowing.
“But then I realized that they were just playing. They swam right underneath my board and I thought I’d be in strife if they came up but they had a good sense of where I was.” Read the full story and see more pictures here.
Check out this interview on ABC news, where Jamie retells the experience.
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