REAL-LIFE MOBY DICK SMASHES FISHING BOAT

Anglers lucky to survive as expert claims giant whale wasn't really angry

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A RAGING giant humpback whale leapt out of the water and crashed down on a boat, hurling two terrified fishermen into the sea, in a real-life scene seemingly plucked from pages of the iconic novel Moby Dick!

In the classic 1851 Herman Melville book, vengeful white whale Moby is demonic and purposely crushes whaling longboats with men aboard before sinking their sailing ship skippered by pegleg Capt.Ahab.

Now a July 23 video taken off the New Hampshire coast captures a similar incident, with former NHL jock Ryan Whitney warning: "There is a pissed off whale patrolling the waters of Portsmouth NH today.