Experience: I was dragged underwater by a humpback whale

It rose above my head, a big black shape that blocked out the skyI live near Sydney, a couple of beaches up from where Home and Away is filmed. It's beautiful and I'm in the water every day. We get a lot of whales migrating down from Queensland - it's not unusual in whale season to stand at any Sydney beach and see a breaching whale, but they're normally 5km out to sea. I had never been any closer to one than that.That changed on 25 October last year. It was a beautiful spring day, cloudless and sunny. I couldn't wait to get down to the beach. It was blowing about 20 knots, perfect conditions for wing foiling. It's a mix between kitesurfing and windsurfing - you hold on to a wing on a foil board out on the water. Continue reading...