Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151225:17:23:00
>> they're usually off in the distance, and you just kind of yearn to be closer to them, you know, because it's just an amazing encounter. >> it's early october 2011. rick and susie spend the morning paddling out roughly six miles into the pacific when rick gets an unexpected greeting. >> all of a sudden, i hear, poof! was that me or did i just hear a whale? so, then, i turned around and heard it again. sure enough, a whale had just surfaced not too far behind me. and that's when out of nowhere it came into a big lunge feed out beside the kayak. and that was really exciting because that's the ...