Close Encounters with Beluga Whales 

It's fascinating to me to be so close, but worlds apart. Spying through a looking glass at each other curious about the other side.

they are seriously like a puppy dog wanting to be played with I am frickin in love with beluga whales❤😍

Wow what an experience! Nice to see them in the wild😊 opposed to a glass bowl. 😭😡

"Hey Frank, I dare you to touch that hooman's boat!"

OMG. What an unbelievably, totally awesome experience. Exactly how nature and humans should interact with each other. I thought you sounded scared at first and then realized it was pure awe. 🐳

How thrilling just watching! Can only imagine what it was like for you! Ty for sharing😊

How can anyone hurt these beautiful creations simply amazing

True wonder and joy. For both species.

Exciting video! You're so smart to wear wet suits. It was the first thing I thought...what if they get knocked over, it looks coooold Then I read your description. Their vocalizations remind me of toddlers. Lol. Oh and thank You for just having natural sounds of video and not adding music, or yelling and screaming your excitement. That drives me nuts. Also it makes the experience all about the human and not about the wonder they are seeing. Nature is so much ore enjoyable in the quiet, imo. 🐳💕

Magical, peaceful and utterly beautiful. I'm a dinghy sailor and I've meet Dolphins and Basking Sharks in my time, but not in such calm conditions to hear them talk. Thanks for sharing.

I can tell you're excited by the soprano in your voice

Love Beluga Whales! 💙....Such smart,sweet animals! 💙

The one filming is adorable tooo...

They have such happy faces lol

Sounds like a tummy rumble ! And a baby gurgling! Awesome!

Thank you Christen, I know this is old but what an amazing experience to interact with the belugas! Im envious!

such calm waters as if it was a lake not ocean

.... a fellow human who sounded like me whenst playing in the water with belugas (finally)..... eeeegaaaads!!.... nothing less, nor more than feeling the joy of their company. God bless you sir, stay that memory forever and forever stay a child at heart in your every reaction to sharing all future nature with yourself :)))))

What a beautiful planet we live in...even if it doesn't look perfect, it is perfect.

The area looks beautiful!

What an awesome experience. I've been up close and personal with Killer Whales, which aren't true whales, but never Beluga's. Great video!

So beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

What an amazing experience you are so lucky to have experienced something like this. What a beautiful moment

Just like me, "hi, hi, hi!" I love animals :)

aww sweet thing. Poor baby needs a good scrubby!

My dude went into reverse puberty when he started getting excited

Wow !! Truly amazing!! Beautiful curious big creatures. ... so marvellous! Xxx

thanks..that was very nice to see....paddled with orcas and humpbacks...but these guys seem more playful...

Ohh wauw, I almost forgot to breath 😃... great video...

they are beautiful and so smart

This encounter with these Belugas will stay with you forever. Things like this has a hold on you. You were so lucky to see these beautiful creatures. They are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

thank you for the vid and behaving passionately but not screaming hysterically, disruptively like some people seeing cetaceans esp humpbacks; so hope to have a chance cetaceous encounter someday

I wish that was me! I love beluga whales!

Close encounter with the curious kind. What an experience!

You should totally bring a blow up ball and it throw it out to them and see if they bring it back

Such an incredible encounter! I love it ❤️

I would be dam scared out my pants

Lol they look like yellow and brown pudding, wiggling under the water 😍😍

Over 40 years ago a leather skinned Curragh on journey across the Atlantic, also attracted Whales, likely due to the soft pliable structure giving off very different vibes to a hard boat.

Cool, Advanced Elements airframe kayaks!

Wetsuits? You will freeze in no time if you fall in even with wetsuits. What you need is two drysuits but they are expensive but it might not be prudent to kayak in a drysuit either.... Belugas are my favorites! They are oh so cute!

Such magical and magnificent creatures ❤

How fun! I love Belugas.

If only we could talk to them like we talk to one another how very cool would that be 😂💞💞💞💞💞

Elmo didn't know kayaking could be so fun!

What an honour that must've been ❣️

That was awesome!! Thanks for sharing

So beautiful! I still would have shit my pants.

Lol "btw these are my inflatable kayaks"

this is an amazing video thank you

Nice video, thanks for sharing!! :)

Just a few mile up the Saguenay the surface water is fresh, a few feet under there is a halocline, then the water is salt. The depth of the salt varies throughout the year. A few years ago I was with some friends maybe 8 or ten mile upriver, maybe further, and the salt layer started at about 30 feet. I wonder how the animals are affected by the buoyancy changes - it certainly would make floating at the surface more difficult for them. Of course they can simply return downstream towards the St. Laurent if they tire. I would assume they are after concentrations of food - likely baitfish. Greenland sharks also frequent the Saguenay. I'm not sure it is completely understood why.

That must have been so exciting.

Husband - gets pushed in boat Wife - Did that whale just push your boat? Husband - hold up 2 fingers. Yeah, twice. Wife - Yeah, they’ll do that, they’ll play with your boat Husbands boat starts moving backwards....and the wife never saw him again. All she heard was the pod of Belugas making sinister laughing noises Lololol

He says "get that emf picture capturing device out of my face" lol

LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH! The next person they interact with might not love these creatures!

Such wonderful, beautiful beings.

wow, this is precious!

Sometimes That "Awwwwe" Could surplus your Sunday budget. Poor Forking Fish dose't knew that.

Its look like mermaid💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Love her 💜

"he touched the boat!" lololol

elbows above wrists for low brace, i can see how that can be overlooked for a Reflexive brace though

A shark would shred those boats, belugas seem to like your quiet friend

Simply, WOW!!!

That was freaking awesome 💕😘💕

Magical 🐳✨👍

what an experience

he bumps the kayak like come on man say something im cool right

What a wonderful experience

nice video

WOW

I would be so scared

She went looking for belugas ,she found out she is indeed the beluga whale herself.

They're not vocalizing that was the other guy trying to secretly pass gas. He thought it was gona be silent yet deadly. In stead he let out a butt cheek squeak. 😵😂😷

A real encounter would be a naked swim in the White Sea northern Russia. It has been done and the person survived.

These are the world's southernmost population of belugas, which, other than these whales, are an entirely arctic animal. This population is on a fast track to extinction, as the animals are considered the world's most contaminated with industrial chemicals, primarily pcb's, and dioxin from a variety of industries in the Great Lakes region, Montreal and Quebec, and mercury and lead from the aluminum smelter in the city of Saguenay, upstream from where this video was filmed.

I don’t know why but I think they’re more like dolphins than whales

So lucky my favorit of all the creaters in ocean are bolugas

So Darn Sweet😘🐳

Needed to go full Dory with the whales. Missed opportunity.

To tell you the fact, belugas are species of dolphins, not whales.

This is not a beluga. Beluga is a fish of the sturgeon family. And this is a toothy whale - belukha

This Cruel Inuit hunting of Belugas must be put to an end. Belugas are one of the most friendliest dolphins towards human beings. I watched a video of these Inuits latching on the beluga with a harpoon, and the beluga is bleeding while trying to escape, and also, killed a whole pod of belugas, which is the type of hunting that is unlike how the red man hunts one buck to feed their whole entire tribe. Inuits are overhunting belugas, indiscriminately, just how they overhunted the Steller's Sea Cow into extinction.

i feel like i saw the same pod at the exact same place, where it was exactly?

Ofcourse they will push the boat around...got to get that candy bar out of the wrapper before you eat it.

Inflatable kayaks 😬

try whistling they seem to respond to it

What an amazing experience. I’m envious. I’m curious as to what the pulsating hum was - a ship?

I envy you :) Are belugas the smartest species of whales ?

Beluga?!?!??

Вообще-то, это не белуга, а белуха, но видео просто волшебное.)).. А белуга - это просто огромный осетр.

I wanna move to Quebec. Will somebody adopt me? um, I am 55 yo : (

Hi! Got a question. How is that advanced elements served you? Did you have any issues with it? Would you recommend buying it?

Awesomeness!!!

Are they gonna bite?

How cold is the river? We will be going in Mid July and I was hoping to do some paddle boarding but now I'm afraid it will be too cold!

Christen's sudden crying Ah!.. Ah!.. frightens me much more then dolphins. Women are so noisy creatures !!!

Muy lindo