Headline : ‘Three Seconds to Act’: Boater Recounts How Whale Capsized His Vessel

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Ryland Kenney didn’t get much sleep on Tuesday night because he kept picturing the mouth of a humpback whale.

Mr. Kenney, a fisherman, and his friend, Greg Paquette, were about two miles off the coast of Rye, N.H., that morning when a 30-foot-long juvenile whale lobbed itself onto the back of their 23-foot motorboat, sending the bow of the boat skyward and Mr. Kenney and Mr. Paquette into the water.

All three parties, including the whale, were uninjured, the United States Coast Guard said, but Mr. Kenney couldn’t stop playing the episode in his head, seeing the whale “resting its head on the engine.”

Mr. Kenney, 44, and Mr. Paquette, 54, are experienced fishermen, Mr. Kenney said, and the two had been out the previous few days because the fishing had been the best they’d seen in a decade. They’d also seen what they believed to be the same whale, which was feeding on bait fish in the area.

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