![]() Overton was taking a nap at the time, so Ressling called out to wake him up. “I’m running the boat, and I dropped the throttle and was like, ‘God, there’s a freaking whale right there.’” “You don’t think you’re going to see a whale when you’re going fishing,” Ressling says to KHOU-11’s Michelle Homer. But then he turned the boat around to get a closer look and saw a shower of water coming from the animal’s blowhole-and he realized it was a whale. At first, he thought the creature was a turtle, which are a common sight in the Gulf of Mexico. Though these creatures can grow up to 41 feet long and weigh 60,000 pounds, their scarcity means humans rarely see them.īrandon Overton and Nate Ressling were fishing from a boat about 100 miles south of Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico around noon on Monday when Ressling spotted something moving in the water. Rice’s whales are extremely rare: Scientists estimate fewer than 100 individuals exist in the wild-and perhaps no more than 50 adults-which makes them one of the most endangered marine mammals around the globe. Two fishermen had the wildlife sighting of a lifetime this week, when they spotted a massive animal likely to be a Rice’s whale swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
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