A kayaker in Chile had a terrifying encounter with a humpback whale when the animal briefly swallowed him and his kayak. The incident was captured on camera and shows the kayaker, Adrián Simancas, being engulfed by the whale before being released unharmed. Despite the fear, both Simancas and his father managed to return to shore safely.
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident was caught on camera and the remarkable footage went viral.
“I thought I was dead,” Adrián told The Associated Press. “I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me.” “When I came up and started floating, I was scared that something might happen to my father too, that we wouldn’t reach the shore in time, or that I would get hypothermia,” Adrián said.After a few seconds in the water, Adrián managed to reach his father’s kayak and was quickly assisted. Despite the scare, both returned to shore uninjured.
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