Two kayakers in California had a lucky escape when a humpback whale breached water and narrowly avoided landing on them.
The remarkable footage, shot by Sanctuary Cruises who organising the whale watching tour, shows the two kayakers narrowly avoid being crushed by the whale near Monterey Bay's Moss Landing Harbor.
A statement from the company posted with the YouTube video: "On our 8am Sanctuary Cruises whale tour, just outside the harbor in Moss Landing, two kayakers on a tandem kayak were almost crushed to death by a massive, near full-size humpback whale.
“We stopped to see a large aggregation of humpbacks feeding and carrying on with random acts of hijinks. There were also a lot of kayakers right in the middle of it all. Humpbacks were coming up next to and in the middle of many kayakers.
"It was amusing. It's all fun and games until someone gets jumped on. The next thing we knew, this thing launched right on top of these two kayakers. That was heavy. The video was shot by Sanctuary Cruises passenger Larry Plants. "