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The dominican republic suddenly turns to horror. >> that one whale came up right underneath me. im looking, and, oh, my god, hes going to hit me. >> i mean, you got a couple tons of whale tail coming at you that fast. its barnacle and bone. it would have been like getting hit with a baseball bat the size of a tree. >> the day starts out calmly for two experienced divers, danny morrow and jim cosmic. morrows had his share of close encounters. as we just witnessed, a massive octopus puts the squee...

The divers follow. >> you cant get a good shot of a big animal unless you get close to it. and we were trying to get as close as we can, and maybe we pushed it a bit too far this particular day. >> this time with dangerous consequences. >> i think its easy to get lulled into a false sense of security when youre filming big animals. we were right in their face for the better part of three hours. and towards the end of it, i think they just got fed up. >> as morrows partner swims in for a better s...

Wide open. >> jim cosmic is stunned. >> i dont think he registered immediately exactly what had actually happened, but i knew he was in trouble because he went straight to the surface and he was holding the top of his head. >> morrow thinks the whale intentionally took aim at his partner. >> whales and dolphins, their tales go like this. and for him to suddenly go like this, its a clear deliberate motion that he was trying to get rid of this pesky person, or probably in his eyes it was like a fl...

Straight to the surface and he was holding the top of his head. >> morrow thinks the whale intentionally took aim at his partner. >> whales and dolphins, their tales go like this. and for him to suddenly go like this, its a clear deliberate motion that he was trying to get rid of this pesky person, or probably in his eyes it was like a fly. we were bugging these animals because we were trying to get good close-up footage. >> weak, bleeding, cosmic swims to the surface and falls into the waiting ...

>> that one whale came up right underneath me. im looking, and, oh, my god, hes going to hit me. i mean, youve got a couple tons of whale tail coming at you that fast, and its barnacle and bone. it would have been like getting hit with a baseball bat the size of a tree. >> the day starts out calmly for two experienced divers, danny morrow and jim comic. morrows had his share of close encounters. as we just witnessed, a massive octopus puts the squeeze on his good friend, doug pemberton. that clo...

Close as we can, and maybe we pushed it a bit too far this particular day. >> this time with dangerous consequences. >> i think its easy to get lulled into a false sense of security when youre filming big animals. we were right in their face for the better part of three hours. and towards the end of it, i think they just got fed up. >> as morrows partner swims in for a better shot, the 40-ton monster with a flick of his massive tail delivers an incredible blow. >> this particular male was probab...

An idyllic day filming humpback whales off the coast of the dominican republic suddenly turns to horror. >> that one whale came up right underneath me. im looking, and, oh, my god, hes going to hit me. >> i moon youve got a couple tons of whale tail coming at you that fast and its barnacle and bone. it would have been like getting hit with a baseball bat the size of a tree. >> the day starts out calmly for two experienced divers, danny morrow and jim comic. morrows had his share of close encount...

He pulled his hand away from his head and it had blood on it. the whale tail had cut his head wide open. >> jim cosmic is stunned. >> i dont think he registered immediately exactly what had actually happened, but i knew he was in trouble because he went straight to the surface and he was holding the top of his head. >> morrow thinks the whale intentionally took aim at his partner. >> whales and dolphins, their tales go like this. and for him to suddenly go like this, its a clear deliberate motio...

He really got hit. i asked him if he was okay, and he pulled his hand away from his head and it had blood on it. the whale tail had cut his head wide open. >> jim cosmic is stunned. >> i dont think he registered immediately exactly what had actually happened, but i knew he was in trouble because he went straight to the surface and he was holding the top of his head. >> morthinks the whale intentionally took aim at his partner. >> whales and dolphins, their tales go like this. and for him to sudd...

Freedom at the last second. morrow has been around the world and back again, filming the wonders of the worlds oceans. his goal on this expedition is to videotape mating humpback whales in the waters of the silver banks whale sanctuary. >> literally on the last day of the trip we stumbled onto a young male and a young female and they were courting, and they were oblivious to us. they just let us do what we wanted. they werent full-grown adults. they were, i guess for lack of a better analogy, th...