A whale has died after colliding with a boat in New Jersey on Aug. 2, resulting in one of the boat’s passengers to be thrown overboard into the Barnegat Bay.

A 20-foot-long Minke whale has died after it collided and nearly capsized a pleasure boat in New Jersey's Barnegat Bay on Saturday, an incident that knocked one boater overboard, officials said. The scary wildlife encounter unfolded in an area north of the Double Creek Channel in Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, officials said.

A whale was killed in a New Jersey bay this weekend after being struck by a boat, an incident that also tossed a passenger into the water and stunned nearby boaters.According to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center,