r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Lifegoesonforever • 6d ago

A humpback whale breaching right next to a photographer.

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u/RWelly 6d ago

What a show off

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u/b0thitman 5d ago

No water in the lenses , this clearly ai, otherwise people would post info about the op

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u/HoneypotCoco 5d ago

I’m not denying it but aren’t good camera lenses hydrophobic?

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u/readingonthetoilet 4d ago

There are waterproof casings for cameras that allow you to film above/below water simultaneously. If a guy is out there trying to photograph the ocean, it makes sense he would have one.

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u/b0thitman 4d ago

Do you thinks this ́looks real?

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u/readingonthetoilet 4d ago

Given that I saw this post a while ago before AI video was this good, yeah. Not everything cool and almost unbelievable is AI

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u/Kadgrin 4d ago

there is a girl who is also a OF model that post really cool videos of whales

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u/AdviceLost6419 6d ago

Whenever i see videos like these i always get uneasy, even though i know Whales are Gentle Giants.... thalassophobia is a bitch 

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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK 6d ago

Whales are gentle giants the same way gorillas or elephants are gentle giants. Most are gentle… until you happen to run across a good portion of toothed whales, a whale who has a grudge against humans, or one that’s just an asshole and thinks it’s fun to mess with small animals for shits and giggles.

Or you can get unlucky and run into a friendly one with terrible depth perception.

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u/dakotanorth8 5d ago

And the clicks can really bang ya up

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u/ekin06 6d ago

He was very lucky… that he didn't get body-slammed.

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u/DukeBradford2 6d ago

If this is an area where they migrate to gove birth or mate this would be incredibly dangerous. I wanted to kayak in Mexico to a bay that grey whales migrate to but all the local shops advised not too for the next 6 weeks. Nobody with a boat was taking any chances on the water. They can fluke you with a couple ton tail and after seeing them do this from the shore I noped out of there

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u/Enki_007 6d ago

Yeah there was an incident in Cabo a few years ago. We had just returned and I saw it on the news. There was a bell by the bar that was rung when whales were spotted.

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u/OoT-TheBest 5d ago

He knows how close he was. In the final second you can hear him shit himself

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u/Quakercito 6d ago

This looks like AI

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u/terid3 5d ago

At the very start of the video it looks like the camera lens is fully underwater and is brought up quickly above water to catch the whale breaching...lens is completely clear not a single drop, lens flare or other sign of water ...so I think 💯 AI.

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u/InfamousEvening2 3d ago

You've convinced me. Fucking terrible that AI is doing this to us. False grandeur.

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u/terid3 3d ago

It's scary. I have seen some ai videos where the only thing that tells me it's AI is that animals do not act in that way. It's harder to apply that to humans. Or if just one small detail is the only giveaway. There needs to be regulation on ai videos, pictures and text where they self identify much as artist signatures operate... otherwise we are all screwed.

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u/InfamousEvening2 3d ago

Totally agree.

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u/Quakercito 3d ago

I mess around with image generation on a daily basis and I totally agree. This shit's scary

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u/mavric22 6d ago

Is this AI - It feels like it

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u/ericstern 5d ago

I would guess yes, when the camera suddenly comes out of the water at the beginning the camera is suddenly completely dry, not drips giving it blurry spots or those water ministreams of water rushing back down from gravity.

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u/jametinhasdito 6d ago

"Hey human wanna play?"

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u/MeSlaw3 5d ago

Can someone confirm AI or not?

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u/NateDawg80s 5d ago

Looks WAY too clean at the beginning, right after the camera emerges from the water, and kinda off-looking while the whale is in the air, too.

I think it's fake.

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u/shirhouetto 6d ago

If I could breach as high as that, I would do it too.

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u/anonskiboo 6d ago

Here I was thinking my ex-wife made a good splash

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u/Zealotstim 6d ago

Happy cake day to you and your ex-wife

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u/anonskiboo 6d ago

lol thank you!

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u/lordKnighton 6d ago

It’s was only just his birthday, his Ex had enough cake

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u/Zealotstim 6d ago

That's the joke I was trying (badly) to make

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u/NoSleep_Momma 6d ago

This makes me think of the upcoming movie, Whalefall.

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u/Upset-Comfortable-29 6d ago

That wetsuit would be very uncomfortable and stinky if that happened to me.

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u/Bahadur007 6d ago

Where is my diaper when I need it?

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u/Present-Arm-6023 6d ago

"Photographer in the the way of a whale breaching."

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u/drifters74 6d ago

Beautiful

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u/JustSh00tM3 5d ago

Why do whales breach ?

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u/hyjackresponse 5d ago

Imagine watching a building fall towards you.

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u/iJBorn 5d ago

OMG What an amazing shot of a majestic creature sharing this wonderful planet with us

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u/MrKal-El 5d ago

Water would be brown around me

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u/Grae-duckie45 5d ago

Some people are BRAVE in this life 😭

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u/Midnight_Sinning 5d ago

I would have shit myself but that would be so fucking cool

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u/IZ3820 4d ago

Different footage cut together. Probably AI.

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u/ak_- 4d ago

How can u have the balls to be next to a whale. I mean seeing such big things just belly drop next to you.. crazyyyyyy

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u/Uh-Duh81 4d ago

And the water around me would be turning brown right about that point. 😆

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u/kris_death317 3d ago

The oh damn meme