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Aerial View Of Whale Breaching Surface

5s 4K UHD
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About this clip

High-angle aerial footage captures a large marine mammal, likely a whale, surfacing in the open ocean. The animal breaks the water's surface, creating a distinct splash and concentric ripples that expand outward across the grey-blue sea. The shot provides a top-down perspective of the creature's movement and the resulting disturbance in the water. This clip is ideal for nature documentaries, wildlife conservation themes, or establishing shots of marine life in their natural habitat.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Aerial marine wildlife footage for nature documentaries, conservation pieces, agency mood reels, and social edits needing a whale-like marine mammal surfacing in open grey-blue water.
Edit role
Use this short clip as a wildlife insert, transition beat, or cutaway that punctuates a marine sequence with a surface breach, splash, and expanding ripples.
Visual details
A large dark marine mammal appears just below and at the ocean surface, then leaves pale splash marks and circular ripples across textured grey-blue water, with no visible people.

Tags

whaleoceanmarine lifeseawaterripplesurfacewildlifenatureanimalmarinebluewater surfacetop downdronewildcreaturesea creatureocean surfacemarine mammal

Shot slate

Resolution
4K UHD
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

A dark marine mammal is partly visible beneath textured grey-blue ocean water near the upper left area of the frame, with no visible people.
The opening frame shows the animal close to the surface before the water disturbance spreads. (0:00)
The marine mammal remains visible just below the surface as small ripples form around its dark back in open grey-blue water, with no visible people.
This moment holds the subject just under the surface, useful for showing the animal's approach. (0:01)

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