Director of the animal-rights group Lifeforce says he had an unsettling close encounter who two humpback whales in waters off Comox. Peter Hamilton says the whales were circling his boat checking it out when one of them suddenly leapt into the air and smacked its head on the window as it landed in the water. Hamilton has posted a video of the close encounter on YouTube that also shows one of the whales flapping its flipper on the boat, rocking it slightly. He says he’s been studying humpback behaviour for three years and while the whales are known to get close to vessels, the contact with the boat was unusual.