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Aerial View Of Large Whale Swimming Underwater · clip 2 of 2

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife
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About this clip

This aerial footage captures a massive whale swimming just beneath the surface of the ocean. The camera looks down through the greenish-blue water, revealing the dark silhouette of the marine mammal as it glides through the ripples. The shot provides a unique perspective of the creature's movement and size relative to the water. Ideal for nature documentaries, wildlife conservation projects, or scenes requiring a sense of scale and oceanic atmosphere.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Fits wildlife documentaries, ocean conservation pieces, nature explainers, and agency mood reels needing a top-down view of a whale moving beneath open water.
Edit role
Use as a short opener, cutaway, or transitional beat that gives scale and marine context without people, shoreline, boats, or built structures in frame.
Visual details
Green-blue ocean fills the frame with surface ripples, shifting pale reflections, and a dark whale silhouette intermittently visible below the water, with no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The composition is a downward aerial view over open water, likely from a drone, with no horizon and the whale held beneath the rippled surface rather than clearly above it.

Tags

whaleoceanunderwatermarine lifeswimmingaerialdroneseawaterwildlifenaturesilhouettesurfaceoceanicmammalbluecalmdocumentaryconservationdeep sea

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
69 MB
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

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

Top-down view of green-blue ocean ripples with a faint dark whale silhouette barely visible beneath the surface and no visible people.
The opening frame establishes the whale as a submerged shape under textured ocean water. (0:00)
A dark underwater whale silhouette sits below the rippled green-blue surface, with pale streaks of reflected light and no visible people.
This frame shows the whale slightly more readable beneath the moving surface texture. (0:01)
The whale appears as a broad dark form under the ocean surface while small ripples and muted blue-green color fill the frame, with no visible people.
The frame gives editors a clear top-down wildlife detail without shoreline or vessels. (0:02)
Green ocean surface with faint whale shape below the ripples.

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