There has been considerable discussion whether the photo of a Southern Right whale breaching and landing on a sailboat off South Africa is real or Photoshopped. (See the comments on our previous post.) A video has now emerged which shows the whale approaching breaching and landing on the sailboat. We are going to cast our vote that the event was not Photoshopped.
In a related vein, the folks at Yachtpals blog have a wonderful roundup of a variety of “whale tales” documented by photographic or video evidence. Remarkably of the seven tales they highlight, five are true.
Check it out on the Yachtpals blog: Whale Tales – Truth, Fiction, and Hoax
The question should be settled by the person who took the video. But it looks genuine to me.