While the camera operator you’re about to hear in the background of this whale video is a patriot, he’s no Captain Ahab, and the contents of his drawers at the clip’s finish will attest to this.

Click play and live vicariously through a man who’s just reached the pinnacle of his experience here on Earth and attained a high no narcotic could possibly usurp.

According to The Daily Beast, this dude is a fisherman, and he and another fishmonger were trying to hook some halibut (or salmon, who knows?) when they came upon this “pod” of whales just off the coast of Anchorage, Alaska.