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Whale Tail Fluke Breaking Ocean Surface (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 whale's tail fluke breaks the ocean surface, creating white foam and splashes. The fluke lifts, arcs, and then submerges back into the deep blue water. The sequence captures the motion of the whale's tail as it interacts with the ocean surface.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, Baja California Sur travel edits, marine conservation pieces, agency mood reels, and social cuts needing a whale fluke breaking through blue ocean water.
Edit role
The 7-second shot works as a short cutaway, transition beat, or insert between wider whale activity clips, showing the tail arc and foam pattern without people or shoreline distractions.
Visual details
A whale tail fluke breaks the deep blue ocean surface, churns white foam, and reveals turquoise water around the submerged body, with no visible people, boats, logos, land, or horizon in frame.
Shot mechanics
The composition is a high overhead aerial view consistent with drone capture, holding the whale and circular foam in open water with the ocean filling foreground, midground, and background.

Tags

oceanwaterwhaletailflukesurfacesplashwhite foamblueturquoisemovementmarineanimalseawavesplashingunderwatermarine life

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
7s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
82 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.

Overhead view of a whale fluke breaking the ocean surface at Buzzards Beach, East Cape, Baja California Sur, Mexico, with white foam spreading across blue water and no visible people.
This opening frame shows the whale tail emerging through a ring of foam in open ocean. (0:00)
The whale fluke sits near the upper left of a widening foam patch at Buzzards Beach, East Cape, Baja California Sur, Mexico, with turquoise water marking the body below and no visible people.
The frame captures the tail and submerged body shape as the splash expands outward. (0:01)
A broad circle of white foam spreads over the blue ocean at Buzzards Beach, East Cape, Baja California Sur, Mexico, while the whale body glows turquoise below the surface and no visible people appear.
This moment emphasizes the circular disturbance left by the whale's movement. (0:02)

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