Whale watching in Husavik

Husavik is a town in the North located in a bay where deep currents flow. It is abundant with Minke whales, Humpbacks, and some blue whales. On today's outing, we saw 3 humpbacks. I felt like a nature killer when we came up literally 3 meters from the last beasts, one of which was about 13m in length. At one point there were two boats that formed a V shape, effectively closing in the whales. It didn't seem to bother them that much as they stayed there, and turned around for us. After that they said 'screw the tourists' and started diving deep and went into erradic patterns. The nice thing about this behavior is that since they were diving deep, they flashed their tails at nearly every time they came up to the surface. Amazing, but too darn close! Apparently Iceland does not respect the European and/or international standards for either fishing or whale watching (fish quotas and distance to the whales).