SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - A California photographer captured a whale breaching in San Francisco Bay Friday afternoon between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.

George Kaskanlian told Nexstar's KRON he captured the video while filming spouting whales and other marine mammals from the Golden Gate Bridge between noon and 2 p.m.

The Marine Mammal Center website states that a whale performs a full breach when more than half of its body rises above the water’s surface.

“A whale breaching is among the most spectacular behaviors you can see in nature,” the Marine Mammal Center website reads. “During a breach, the whale propels itself out of the water in either a spinning or non-spinning motion.”

Researchers think that breaching and other loud surface actions like tail slapping and flippe

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