{"id":505550,"date":"2026-03-31T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505550\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:16:16","slug":"windsurfer-collides-with-whale-in-unbelievable-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505550\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsurfer collides with whale in unbelievable video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One windsurfer is lucky to be alive after colliding with a massive gray <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/07\/science\/blue-whales-going-silent-off-coast-of-california-alarming-scientists-with-greater-ecosystem-danger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whale in San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Kramer was windsurfing at Crissy Field when the encounter happened. Kramer was gliding across the water when the whale breached, colliding with the animal and getting launched off of his surfboard and hitting the water.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78086957;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38943806\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/windsurfer-eric-kramers-day-windsurfing-124740225.png\" alt=\"Windsurfer Eric Kramers colliding with a surfacing gray whale, sending him tumbling into the water.\" class=\"wp-image-38943806\"  \/>One windsurfer is lucky to be alive after colliding with a massive gray whale in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78397213;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38943809\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/windsurfer-eric-kramers-day-windsurfing-124740220.png\" alt=\"Windsurfer Eric Kramers falls off his board after colliding with a surfacing whale.\" class=\"wp-image-38943809\"  \/>Windsurfer Eric Kramers collided with a surfacing gray whale, sending him tumbling into the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a \u201cwhale\u201d of a day.. Please be cautious and respect wildlife, I had reduced my speed greatly bc I had seen a couple whales in the area but on my last run back it just popped up right in front of me. Glad we are both ok,\u201d Kramer said in a post on social media about the collission.<\/p>\n<p>Some commenters took aim at Kramer\u2019s decision to still windsurf despite seeing whales in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean if you noticed them there, then why did you still decide to sail,\u201d asked one user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHmm- what happened to keeping back 300 ft from marine mammals?\u201d another chimed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One windsurfer is lucky to be alive after colliding with a massive gray whale in San Francisco. Eric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[776,3470,4237,90,56,54,55,1384,11299,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-505550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-whales","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505550","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=505550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}