Australian Surfer Survives Collision with Breaching Whale, Dragged 30 Feet Underwater

55-year-old Jason Breen, known among friends as "Jaws," miraculously survives and escapes serious injury after a rare, "one in a million" encounter with a breaching juvenile whale while wing foiling in Sydney's Mona Vale Beach.

Jason Breen, a 55-year-old Australian surfer known as 'Jaws', collided with a breaching juvenile whale while wing foiling off the coast of Sydney, resulting in him being dragged approximately 30 feet underwater until his leash broke.
Breen was filming himself with a GoPro during the encounter, which unexpectedly captured the rare event of a whale jumping out of the water and colliding with him.
Upon impact, Breen was immediately knocked off his board and dragged underwater by the whale getting caught in his leash. In a stroke of luck, his leash broke, releasing him from the whale and allowing him to surface.
If the whale had been an adult or had barnacles on its skin, the incident could have been substantially more dangerous and resulted in serious injury. Miraculously, Breen was not seriously harmed in the collision.
Coincidentally, a bystander known as Paul Nettlebeck was filming from a headland, capturing the entire incident on tape. Nettlebeck alerted the authorities right after witnessing the event.