On 12 September 2015, a 30-ton humpback whale breached and landed on Tom Mustill and his friend Charlotte Kinloch as they paddled a sea kayak in Monterey Bay, California. Incredibly, both survived the incident, but the near-death experience haunted documentary maker Tom and left him wondering if the whale was deliberately trying to hurt them. To find the answer, Tom returned to California in 2018 to investigate. Tom meets those who have survived similar hair-raising encounters and the experts who know the whales best. What he discovers raises far bigger questions, not just about what happened that day but also about our relationship with whales and their future alongside us.

Originally released by BBC, 2019. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 22, 2019.

Introduction: Humpback Whales - A Detective Story (2:14); --Whale Education (4:55); -- Research and Observation (3:59); -- "Happy Whale" (3:05); -- Humpback Whale Encounter (4:49); -- Human Threats to Whales (8:33); -- Altruistic Behavior (8:54); -- Identifying the Humpback (3:33); -- Whale Study (6:50); -- Investigation Closed (3:49); -- Credits: Humpback Whales - A Detective Story (0:28); .