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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Nope! The Orca’s eat their prey. Dolphins, whales, sharks, seals, etc
Lol, I was just busting your chops. 🤪 There’s no telling what goofy things I’ve posted in the wee hours over the years.
Thanks for always posting interesting articles!
NOT TRUE.
The diameter of the humpback whale's esophagus is less than that of a baseball. It couldn't have swallowed the man (MUCH LESS HIS KAYAK) on a bet.
It just 'mouthed' him and then spat him out. He was NEVER swallowed.
The author of this headline is a quasi-literate idiot.
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"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
-- Mark Twain
And you believe that, do you?
Do you have any good reason I shouldn't?
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/peleg-nye-jonah-cape-cod/
i was just kidding- I have no reason to not believe you-
Here is a case from 4 years ago in New England:
Here is the 19th century case I originally commented about:
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/peleg-nye-jonah-cape-cod/
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