{"id":264288,"date":"2025-11-15T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:45:12","slug":"b-c-couple-captures-crazy-encounter-with-humpback-whale-right-off-their-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264288\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. couple captures \u2018crazy\u2019 encounter with humpback whale, right off their dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A Barkley Sound couple is becoming known around the world for capturing remarkable video of whales, without having to leave home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Mieras shot a video last weekend as he ran back and forth on his dock tracking a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/humpback-whale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">humpback whale<\/a> that had come for a visit. He called the encounter \u201ccrazy\u201d and posted it on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@naturestockfootage\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The humpback swam in front of the dock for 20 minutes, then left, and then came back later for an encore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKathy says, \u2018Oh it\u2019s turned around,\u2019 so I go run from the other dock back to the original dock, and just plunked myself down, put my hand in the water with the camera as deep as possible, gauging where it might show up or not, and then the first time it came by it literally came right under my hand,\u201d Mieras told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He, along with his wife Kathy Johnson, owns and operates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@naturestockfootage\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rendevous Dive Adventures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople only see the really beautiful part of Peter\u2019s filming, with the music set in and the timing just right. Very rarely do people get to see the silliness that sometimes goes on when you\u2019re trying to catch an animal, especially a marine animal in the water, and so we thought we\u2019d post it just because it was kind of amusing,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11526167\/billie-eilish-elon-musk-trillionaire-money\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/billie-eilish-elon-musk.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBillie Eilish calls out \u2018pathetic\u2019 Elon Musk for not donating vast fortune\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11522992\/canada-post-strike-holiday-season-2025\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/189a15b4-6e37-4650-8ea4-aef6f0040f76.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCould Canada Post workers strike again ahead of holidays? What we know\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the couple\u2019s second close whale encounter in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10904408\/underwater-camera-humpback-whale-feeding-bait-ball-bc-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mieras accidentally dropped a camera off his dock<\/a> and captured an amazing video of a humpback bursting through a bait ball, which is a tightly packed circle of fish.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Amazing humpback whale encounter caught on video'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/web_still_6P_HUMPBACK_FEEDING_VID_OM013MRZ.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:10<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazing humpback whale encounter caught on video\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Barkley Sound couple is becoming known around the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1397,22114,109178,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-264288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-humpback-whale","10":"tag-humpback-whale-video","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}