These folks were fishing when suddenly this behemoth appeared from beneath the sea

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A fishing expedition off the coast of the New York/New Jersey border veered into “Moby Dick” territory last week when a massive humpback whale breached a boat within arms’ distance of its occupants.

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The majestic close call happened on June 22 when a group was fishing about a mile off the coast of Perth Amboy and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

The group spied the whale in the distance, and decided to get a little closer, said Paul Ziolkowski.

But they didn’t bargain for being within spitting — or eating — distance!

In this video, see the whale as it roars out of the sea, essentially trolling the onlookers.

“Oh my god!” exclaims one person off-camera, amid much stunned laughter.

According to ABC-7 NY, “large numbers” of humpback whales are back in the waters off New Jersey and New York for the first time in a century due to an influx of menhaden, on which the whales feed.

Scientists say there is more menhaden because there is more plankton.

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