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Humpback Whale Fluke Splashing in Ocean (Buzzards East Cape los Cabos, 2022)

7s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife Buzzards East Cape los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2022
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About this clip

A humpback whale's tail fluke surfaces in the ocean, creating a large splash. The whale moves its tail, causing water to spray and ripple. The sequence captures the dynamic motion of the marine animal in the blue sea.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, Baja California Sur travel edits, conservation segments, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing aerial 4K footage of a humpback whale tail splash in open blue water.
Edit role
The seven-second shot works as a kinetic cutaway, transition beat, or short insert between wider whale behavior clips, with the fluke splash providing a clear visual punctuation point.
Visual details
A humpback whale fluke and pale underwater body shape disturb deep blue ocean, throwing white foam and turquoise spray across the surface, with no boats, shoreline, logos, or visible people in frame.
Shot mechanics
The frames read as an overhead drone composition looking down at the whale and circular splash pattern, with the ocean filling the frame and no horizon or land reference visible.

Tags

oceanwhalehumpbackfluketailwatersplashwavebluewhitemovementmarineanimalseasurfaceswimmingdynamicnatural

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
7s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
85 MB
Location
Buzzards East Cape Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2022
Published
Jan 2022

Still Frames From This Clip

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

At Buzzards Beach, East Cape, Baja California Sur, a humpback whale fluke churns the blue ocean into a white circular splash with no visible people.
The opening frame shows the whale tail action already breaking the surface and forming a bright foam ring. (0:00)
The humpback whale tail stands more vertically inside a foamy surface ring in the blue water near Buzzards Beach, East Cape, with no visible people.
This frame captures the clearest vertical fluke position as the whale drives water outward. (0:01)
A broad white splash spreads over the whale's pale underwater shape in the blue ocean at Buzzards Beach, East Cape, and no people are visible.
The splash expands across the surface, partially hiding the whale beneath the whitewater. (0:02)

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