A kayaker in Chile's Patagonia narrowly escaped after a humpback whale engulfed him and his kayak for a few seconds before releasing him unharmed. The terrifying incident was captured on video by the kayaker's father and has since gone viral.
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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