Posted on 02/14/2025 12:16:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
Astonishing footage captured the moment a kayaker was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off Chilean Patagonia for a few seconds — before he was miraculously spit back out. Adrian Simancas was kayaking in the Strait of Magellan in Bahía El Águila last Saturday when the beast emerged from the water and easily devoured the young man and his yellow kayak, according to video incidentally captured by his father, Dell, who was trailing behind.
“I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me,” he told the Associated Press.“ Yes, at first I thought I had died,” Adrian added. “It was like, of course, a lot of terror because I thought no, no, there was nothing I can do.”
After he was freed from the whale’s mouth, his father can be heard telling his son to stay calm. But a new fear quickly emerged. “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. He was seen on video swimming in the frigid water over to his father’s kayak and the two were able to safely make it to shore.
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I wonder if Jonas knew Jonah? 🧐
Oops. I guess I shouldn’t type this late.
He musta tasted like crap.
I think I’ll stick to lakes and rivers after seeing that...!
He was told to go to Nineveh, but did he listen?
A rubber kayak probably doesn’t taste too great...
I didn’t read it was a rubber kayak. Most I seen are a hard plastic of some sort. Are you saying the whale didn’t eat the guy because he didn’t take the wrapper off? I think the whale thought the guy tasted like crap. Are you saying he don’t?
As a PADI trained diver I was always taught to not look like food.
You will get spit out,
but you may get very damaged.
I wonder if that’s why the say never go swimming with bow legged women?
Guy on a 19th century whaling ship got swallowed by a whale. Crew members killed the whale, cut the man out and he was still alive.
That confirms my decision to never go kayaking, or at least not to go kayaking on any body of water other than a swimming pool.
You’ve got to...
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
And don’t mess with Mister In-between!
Was it a white whale named Richard? Was the guys first name Captain? Inquiring minds want to know.
Whale can’t swallow someone and spit him out.
The smartest people in the world - militant atheists - told us that.
I watched the vid, including the part where the “kayak” is flipped and floating upside down. The “rubber” is probably some sort of vinyl or rubberized plastic, actually. I have something similar, not quite as elongated, that holds 2x smallish adults. (It will carry a larger pair, but is then crowded.)
The guy’s wet suit(?) probably doesn’t taste much like anything a humpback whale would eat, either.
He musta tasted like carp
That was my first guess
Yeah I was just goofing around with you. He’s lucky he wasn’t hurt more. Anyway, I’ve dove in wet suits and worried li looked like a seal. Never worried about whales but tigers, whites, and bulls were in my mind. We may be at the top of the food chain but we ain’t alone. In the water or on land. Be safe Regards :).
I got a great recipe for carp. It takes a thin cedar shingle and a lot of barbecue sauce a long time in the oven. You can find it on line I’m sure. 😉
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