- An internet video showed the baby animal surfacing near group in Pacific Ocean
- One of the snorkelers was able to gently touch the baby whale as it swam by
- The poster of the video shared and emotional description of the encounter
A group of snorkelers were treated to a magical sight during their dive off the waters of Costa Rica – an up close encounter with a baby humpback whale.
A video posted to Newsflare, filmed by one of the snorklers near Coco, Costa Rica, shows the baby whale swimming incredibly close to the group.
‘We had the privilege of snorkeling with a baby humpback whale,’ wrote the poster of the video.
‘He kept coming so close to us and swam right up to one of our divers, Rob.’
Snorkelers encountered a baby whale off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, getting close enough the the creature to gently touch it
The short clip shows the baby whale approaching the snorkelers, surfacing a few times and even allowing one member of the group to gently touch the creature.
The footage of the event was captured on January 22.
The video’s poster described the rare experience in emotional terms.
‘We never saw the mother or the escorts but I can assure you that they were there close by and keeping an eye on that youngster. In all the twenty years that I have been diving in the Costa Rica Gulf of Papagayo I have never had this sort of experience before. I saw into the eye of a whale and he looked deep into my soul and I was blessed.’
The poster of the video of the encountered said that the whale ‘looked deeply into her soul’