A kayaker was briefly swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Chilean Patagonia before being unharmed released. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. The kayaker, Adrián Simancas, described the 'terror' of the experience but thankfully both he and his father returned to shore uninjured.
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. It happened in Bahía El Águila last Saturday near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan.
"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.
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