A whale died after boaters saw it make contact with at least two boats in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay on Saturday.

The whale caused one boat to tip over and a passenger fell off the vessel. Video footage shows the tense moments, Fox Weather reported.

“Oh my God, they’re going over! Oh, man overboard!” someone behind the camera yells as the scene unfolds. After the person fell into the water, she appeared to swim to the bow of the boat as the whale flopped around in the water nearby:

Per the Fox article, the creature was identified as a 20-foot minke whale that had swum into shallow waters near the Double Creek Channel.

The whale died before rescuers could save it. Boater John Barrett recalled seeing the whale in the shallow water of an inlet but it later moved to the channel area whe

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