VIDEO: Humpback whale breaches close to boat off New Jersey

NEW JERSEY -- Passengers on a boat in New Jersey were taken by surprise when a playful whale breached extremely close to the boat on June 22.

Paul Ziolkowski, was out boating with a group of friends a mile off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, on the border of New York and New Jersey, when a huge Humpback Whale breached extremely close to the boat.

Ziolkowski was lucky enough to catch the whole thing on camera.