#Whale accused of 'mugging' tourists off Aussie coast: 'It's quite rare'.
The boat's captain declared it was one of her top experiences in 10 years of #whalewatching.
A group of tourists were "literally held hostage" by a #humpbackwhale on Friday morning after the curious mammal circled a boat off the #NSW east coast, forcing the captain to do nothing but float due to environmental laws.
For almost an hour, captain and marine biologist Cassie Murray, 31, was forced to simply cut the boat's power supply and watch in awe as the giant whale "hung around" the boat near #Manly in Sydney. However, she said the trip had started like any other.
"We don't use any kind of technology to find the whales, we're just looking with our eyes," the captain from the whale watching company Ocean Extreme told Yahoo News. "We're always looking for the blow, which is the breath of the whale. That's typically how we spot them... then this whale made a turn towards the boat
"It just kind of hung around and circled the boat and #spyhopped, which is when they lift their head up out of the water to take a look around," she said.
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