{"id":610959,"date":"2026-05-29T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:47:11","slug":"spectacular-moment-humpback-whale-breaches-near-brixham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610959\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular moment humpback whale breaches near Brixham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage has captured the moment a humpback whale breached off the coast of Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tristan Northway, known on social media as Mr Fish, said the &#8220;breathtaking&#8221; sight happened on Tuesday off the coast of Brixham. He said the whale appeared &#8220;out of nowhere&#8221;, breaching &#8220;directly in front of the boat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was genuinely one of the most breathtaking wildlife encounters I&#8217;ve ever experienced at sea,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coral Smith from Devon Wildlife Trust Marine Awareness Office said it appeared to be a juvenile humpback whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage has captured the moment a humpback whale breached off the coast of Devon. Tristan Northway, known on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-610959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610959","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=610959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}