Protective whale!

 Epoch Times:

50,000-Pound Whale Tucks Scuba Diver Under Its Fin to Protect Her From Nearby Shark
A marine biologist and her team were delighted to encounter a 50,000-pound (approx. 22,680-kilogram) whale on one of their snorkeling adventures. But delight soon turned to great fright, as the giant whale started pushing against her with its head.

Whilst things looked like they could have turned ugly, it turned out that the massive whale had another purpose, and no one got hurt at the end of the day.
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“I’ve spent 28 years underwater with whales, and have never had a whale so tactile and so insistent on putting me on his head, or belly, or back, or, most of all, trying to tuck me under his huge pectoral fin,” said Hauser, who was in the waters off Muri Beach, Rarotonga, the Cook Islands.

The whale pushed her around for over 10 minutes, which felt like hours to Hauser. Then she thought she spotted another “whale” in the distance, but it turned out to be a shark—a 15-foot-long tiger shark was lurking nearby.

Hauser finally realized that the giant mammal had been protecting her from being attacked by the shark. She said there was another whale slapping the water with its tail, trying to divert the shark away.
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The event happened a couple of years ago, but it still deserves a WOW. 

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