Of course this stunning image is really nothing more than an optical illusion as sunlight is refracted through the jet of moist air creating a orange glow.
American amateur photographer Mark Turner, who went on the whale watching trip with his 82-year-old dad, said: 'We had a professional photographer with us as a guide, and on the first day, he told us about the fire breathing whale phenomenon that happens when the sun is low in the sky and is backlighting the whale.
'I immediately decided it was going to be my goal to take a picture of that.
'We were getting ready to set anchor for the evening and there were three whales swimming between our boat and a beautiful Alaskan sunset. As they spouted water from their blow holes, we could see the effect the sun had on the mist. The lower the sun got on the horizon, the more brilliant the colours.
Rescue workers found a 54-year-old man clinging to a boulder by a river – injured but alive – two days after a powerful typhoon ravaged the south of the Philippines, killing at least 379 people. Hundreds are still missing.
All Carlos Agang had to eat was coconut and water until he was found in a tattered shirt with a fractured leg and bruises by a group of rescue volunteers in Compostela Valley, the province worst hit by Typhoon Bopha.
"I can't believe it. I didn't expect to see people survive two days after they were swept by flood and mud," a fire volunteer said.
Rescuers also found a pregnant woman on the other side of the river with her one-year old son after escaping floods that swamped their house.
The Dutch Coastguard has called off a search for six crew still missing after their cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank in the North Sea.
Five bodies have so far been recovered but officials said there was "zero" chance of finding survivors in the icy waters.
"We have now stopped and we will not begin again tomorrow," Coastguard spokesman Peter Westenberg said.
The Dutch defence ministry said the North Sea was treacherous when the 148m Baltic Ace collided with the 134m container ship Corvus J near busy shipping lanes, some 40 miles off the coast of the southern Netherlands.
However, the operations manager at Stamco Ship Management Co Ltd, which managed the Baltic Ace, said the conditions were normal at the time of the collision.
"You cannot control some things. This happened in good weather, normal weather. There was good visibility, so I feel most probably there was a human error," he said.
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