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Close as we can, and maybe we pushed it a bit too far this particular day. >> this time with dangerous consequences. >> i think it's easy to get lulled into a false sense of security when you're 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 morrow's 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 probably 40 feet long, maybe 50 feet long, which means he was probably in the neighborhood of 40 or 50 ...

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. i'm looking, and, oh, my god, he's going to hit me. >> i moon you've got a couple tons of whale tail coming at you that fast and it's 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. morrow's had his share of close encounters. as we just witnessed, a massive octopus puts the squeeze on his good friend, doug pemberto...

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 don't 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, it's 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. w...

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 don't 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 suddenly go like this, it's a clear deliberate motion that he was trying to get rid of this pesky perso...

Freedom at the last second. morrow has been around the world and back again, filming the wonders of the world's 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 weren't full-grown adults. they were, i guess for lack of a better analogy, they were teenagers, and they were amorous teenagers, and they were cavorting like teenagers do. >> ...