Father captures rare breach of 3 whales at once off Cape Cod

A New England man’s birthday fishing trip with his daughters turned into a trip of a lifetime after he captured a magnificent display of three massive whales synchronously breaching off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Robert Addie, a long time fisher and a U.S. army veteran, told Fox News Digital that he had just returned from a humanitarian trip to Ukraine and was spending a long weekend with his three daughters, Sage, Cierra, and Neve, and his son-in-law, Josh, celebrating his birthday.

“It was a big weekend for me. A big welcome home and happy birthday, Dad,” Addie told Fox News Digital. “We did dinner in Boston, a Red Sox game and fishing.”

On Monday, the family set off for their annual fishing trip just off the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Addie explained that all morning he had his camera out, hoping to capture a shot of the massive marine mammal.

“I spent most of the morning trying to capture whales because there’s always a lot of whale activity out there,” Addie said. “Every time I got my camera out, they were gone. And then I just left my camera on hoping to catch something.”

All of a sudden, Addie captured the epic moment three adult whales leaped up into the air. Seconds later, a juvenile whale is seen breaching following the simultaneous breaching adult whales. 

“Wow! That was awesome,” Addie’s daughters are heard exclaiming in the video.

The avid fisher said that the adult whales were “really graceful.”

“It was quite the moment,” Addie said, adding that seeing the whales was “icing on the cake.”

Addie said that he grew up fishing tuna and swordfish in Gloucester, Massachusetts as a young adult and in Alaska as well, but he never saw anything like this.

“I’ve literally seen thousands of whales, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Addie said.

The father of three said that his youngest daughter, Neve,  has her bachelors degree in marine management. Addie explained that they are all wondering why the whales were synchronously breaching.

“Everybody’s saying the same thing. They’ve never seen a triple like that, especially synchronized and a full breach,” Addie said.