Wal meeting with a moment of shock: in southern Chile, a kayak driver was briefly swallowed by a humpbacks. The 24-year-old came away with the horror. His father accidentally recorded the scene on video.
The kayak driver Adrián Simancas paddled near the city of Punta Arenas in Patagonia when a huge whale suddenly appeared out of the water and completely swallowed him and his yellow boat. Five seconds later, the bewildered Simancas then returned unharmed.
The scene recorded with the camera (see X -contribution) went viral. The video was published by Simanca’s father Dell Simancas.
“I thought he would have smothered”
In the recording it can be heard how Simanca shouts his father: “I thought he would have swallowed me.” I come. “
The father later told the Omroep TVN, in the three seconds, when his son suddenly disappeared, he was “really scared”. “And suddenly he shot out.”
24-year-old got away with the horror
The 24-year-old himself got away with the horror. He saw something that was “blue and white and passed my face close to my face,” he said later TVN. He did not understand what happened. He thought the whale had “eaten” him. According to experts, bumps cannot do this because of their small throat.
Wal probably did not notice Kayakers
According to the seabiologist Maria José Pérez of the University of Chile, such incidents are “very rare”. In comparison with the AFP press office, she suspected that the kayak “was exactly in the whale of the whale” with krill or fish. So it could be seen in the recording how the whale “came to the surface with an open mouth”. The marine mammal probably did not notice the small boat.
Source: Krone
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