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Freediver Cindy Yang shared her close encounter with a whale in a video she captured on camera

In the clip, she could be seen swimming horizontally on the top of the water, when a huge school of fish — and a large whale behind it — could be seen swimming up beneath her

Yang calmly dodges the whale as it comes within inches of her left hand "nearly swallowing me"

A freediver almost had her own Pinocchio moment — being swallowed up by a whale.

Freediver Cindy Yang, 45, a freediving coach and underwater photographer from Australia, had been diving off the coast of Norway when she had a close encounter with a large humpback whale that was captured all on camera, according to Caters News.

In the heart-stopping video, she could be seen diving horizontally into the water when

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