Southern Right Whale Breached On A Ship

"We had been taking some pictures and had just decided to head back when a Southern Right whale, between 11 - 14 m (37-45 ft) long, breached about 100 meters (328 ft) away from us. It then suddenly breached about 10 meters (33 ft) from us and then – right on us! We were sailing so had no engine and we could not even take any action."
The Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Like other right whales, the Southern Right Whale is readily distinguished from others by the callosities on its head, a broad back without a dorsal fin, and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. Its skin is very dark grey or black, occasionally with some white patches on the belly. The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids (whale lice). It is almost indistinguishable from the closely related North Atlantic and the North Pacific Right Whales, displaying only minor skull differences. It may have fewer callosities on its head and more on its lower lips than the two northern species. Approximately 12,000 Southern Right Whales are spread throughout the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere.