Video captures whale body-slamming windsurfer at Sydney beach

Jason Breen didn’t think his GoPro was turned on to capture what happened while he was windfoiling at a Sydney beach on Wednesday. Luckily it was, otherwise he thinks nobody would have believed him.

The 55-year-old Newport resident was cruising along the water at Mona Vale beach when a humpback whale soared out of the water and landed on top of him, dragging him about 20 to 30 feet below the surface.

“I thought I was gone to be honest,” Breen said. “I thought for a few seconds, ‘This is what it’s like to die’.”

As he wrestled beneath the whale, he could feel its smooth skin against his own, leading him to believe it was a juvenile.

Then his leg rope snapped, and he clawed his way back to the surface and to his board. When he made it to the shore, he saw some mates and told them what happened.

“They just went ‘Yeah, sure!’” Breen said. “They thought I was telling a made up story, then I realised my GoPro had captured it all.”

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