{"id":12033,"date":"2022-09-01T21:29:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T01:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=12033"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:42:46","slug":"watch-pair-of-whales-surface-inches-from-seaside-park-lifeguards-surf-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2022\/09\/watch-pair-of-whales-surface-inches-from-seaside-park-lifeguards-surf-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Pair of Whales Surface Inches From Seaside Park Lifeguard&#8217;s Surf Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"\/\/cdn.playwire.com\/bolt\/js\/zeus\/embed.js\" data-config=\"\/\/config.playwire.com\/1024730\/videos\/v2\/5555687\/zeus.json\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A summer season with a notable bump in whale sights off the Jersey Shore continues to produce incredible chance encounters with the marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Seaside Park lifeguard Kate Rizzo sent a video she captured on a wearable action camera to Shorebeat showing two whales surfacing within feet \u2013 if not inches \u2013 from her rescue surf board. One whale can be seen breaching with its dorsal fin ahead of Rizzo, while the other swerves in for a closer look before making his way forward.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12036\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5399.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Lifeguard Kate Rizzo paddles alongside a whale off Seaside Park, Sept. 1, 2022. (Photo: Trisha DeVoe)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12036\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5399.jpg\" alt=\"Lifeguard Kate Rizzo paddles alongside a whale off Seaside Park, Sept. 1, 2022. (Photo: Kate Rizzo)\" width=\"682\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5399.jpg 682w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5399-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lifeguard Kate Rizzo paddles alongside a whale off Seaside Park, Sept. 1, 2022. (Photo: Trisha DeVoe)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/news\/humpback-whales-visit-new-york-new-jersey-stay-longer-and-visit-again\">Rutgers University study<\/a> of whale encounters off the Jersey Shore found that there have been 259 such sightings since 2012, when researchers began keeping statistics in order to better track whale activity. The same study found whales who occupy the triangular ocean bite between the Long Island and New Jersey coasts generally stay in the area for about 37 days, and are often seen by humans more than once. About one-third of whales return year after year, especially in the zone off Manasquan Inlet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12034\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"A whale breached the surface directly beside a lifeguard on a rescue surf board in Seaside Park, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022. (Screenshot: Kate Rizzo)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12034\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12034\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj-1024x565.png\" alt=\"A whale breached the surface directly beside a lifeguard on a rescue surf board in Seaside Park, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022. (Screenshot: Kate Rizzo)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj-1536x848.png 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj-2048x1130.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A whale breached the surface directly beside a lifeguard on a rescue surf board in Seaside Park, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022. (Screenshot: Kate Rizzo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As for why more whales seem to be staying off New Jersey&#8217;s coastline instead of heading further north to New England, the researchers haven&#8217;t nailed down a single reason \u2013 there are likely more than one \u2013 but often cite the thriving presence of bunker (menhaden) in the area, a prime food source for marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Humpback whales have been the most commonly-sighted whale species.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2022\/09\/watch-pair-of-whales-surface-inches-from-seaside-park-lifeguards-surf-board\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summer season with a notable bump in whale sights off the Jersey Shore continues to produce incredible chance encounters with the marine mammals. On Thursday, Seaside Park lifeguard Kate Rizzo sent a video she captured on a wearable action camera to Shorebeat showing two whales surfacing within feet \u2013 if not inches \u2013 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Watch: Pair of #Whales Surface Inches From Seaside Park Lifeguard's Surf Board | #Whale #JerseyShore #SeasidePark #WhaleSighting #CloseEncounter","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[1959,903,1958,32,2256,2255],"class_list":["post-12033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seaside-heights","category-shore-environment","tag-featured","tag-humpback-whale","tag-lifeguard","tag-seaside-park-nj-news","tag-surf-board","tag-whale-sighting","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ssp_surfboard_whale_seaside_nj.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-385","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}