--- title: Man With Boston Accent Finds Whale, Fish: Video description: Man with a Boston accent thinks he found a whale while fishing in viral video canonical: https://time.com/4047191/boston-accent-whale-fish-video/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-23T21:26:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:09.180Z og:title: This Guy's Boston Accent Only Makes a 'Sea Monstah' More Real og:description: The video is making waves on the Internet og:url: https://time.com/4047191/boston-accent-whale-fish-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbae806c2eef6993a/69886519428a9e7d40ccf48d/ocean-sunfish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 og:image:alt: ocean-sunfish og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Guy's Boston Accent Only Makes a 'Sea Monstah' More Real twitter:description: The video is making waves on the Internet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbae806c2eef6993a/69886519428a9e7d40ccf48d/ocean-sunfish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Guy's Very Intense Boston Accent Only Makes This 'Sea Monstah' More Real  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 23, 2015 9:26 PM UTC  Sunfish, Mola mola, Molidae, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, Canada Sunfish, Mola mola, Molidae, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, CanadaGetty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 23, 2015 9:26 PM UTC In a video that seems straight out of the movie _Ted_, Michael Bergin, from Malden, Mass., freaks out and curses after every other word in a very thick Boston accent. The reason? Well, he thinks he has spotted a baby whale while on his friend Jason “Jay” Foster’s boat in Boston Harbor. Or maybe a flounder. Or a tuna. Either way, he wants to do something about it. “That thing looks dead, man, we gotta call the aquarium or something, dude,” he says in the video below, which, again, has a lot of profanity: [The New England Aquarium issued a statement clarifying](http://news.neaq.org/2015/09/the-sea-monstah-is-actually-ocean.html) that the “sea monstah” looks like an ocean sunfish (_Mola mola_), poses no threat to humans and tends to stay close to the water’s surface, behavior that scientists believe allows it to “thermoregulate” by letting “seabirds to pluck off parasites.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4047191/boston-accent-whale-fish-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4047191/boston-accent-whale-fish-video/"},"headline":"This Guy's Very Intense Boston Accent Only Makes This 'Sea Monstah' More Real","datePublished":"2015-09-23T21:26:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:09.180Z","description":"The video is making waves on the Internet","url":"https://time.com/4047191/boston-accent-whale-fish-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbae806c2eef6993a/69886519428a9e7d40ccf48d/ocean-sunfish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbae806c2eef6993a/69886519428a9e7d40ccf48d/ocean-sunfish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ocean-sunfish","caption":"ocean-sunfish","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4047191/boston-accent-whale-fish-video/","name":"This Guy's Very Intense Boston Accent Only Makes This 'Sea Monstah' More Real"}}]}] ```