Wail song.
You don't have to speak Spanish to understand that the "Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay!" in this video roughly translates to, "Holy shit! A humpback whale has just lifted me and my kayak out of the water, and I will treasure this moment for the rest of my life! That is, if the whale doesn't decide to snap my tiny boat in half and toss me and my companion several hundred yards, and I'm somehow able to survive this incredibly exciting, terrifying ordeal!"
That's certainly what it sounded like. And it's the sound that most of us would make in the same situation. So you can't blame the two people kayaking off the coast of Argentina for losing their composure. Keeping your cool is probably no longer on your priority list when an animal weighing 40 tons decides to lift you up for a closer look.
A lot of YouTube commenters seem to be upset that the kayakers approached the whales and put themselves in harms way. Maybe so, but the whales were never in any danger, and judging by the high-pitched squeals that came from the guy in the kayak, it sounds like there's zero chance of him being a repeat offender.
(by Jonathan Corbett)