Two humpback whales came dangerously close to a boat off the coast of New Hampshire on Tuesday.

An exclusive video sent to News 9 shows the whales breaching before one surfaced for air and swam directly under the vessel.

Captain Dale Sprague and his first mate, Matt Hamilton, said they were haddock fishing about six or seven miles past the Isles of Shoals when they spotted the whales.

"Just really kind of bottom fishing, so sitting around, and whales were all over the place, and then they started to get a little bit closer, it seemed," Hamilton said.

Both said they have seen whales before, but being this close was rattling.

"Pretty good-sized whale jumping to the right of us. And then as that one landed, another one kind of to the left, very close to the boat. And then as we looked be

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