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 day on the water took a scary turn when a boat collided with a whale at the Jersey Shore, nearly capsizing and fatally injuring the whale.

A whale has died after being struck by a boat Saturday afternoon along the Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, New Jersey.