Insane moment a whale briefly swallows kayaker
<p>A huge humpback whale has briefly swallowed an unsuspecting kayaker and then spat him out off the coast of southern Chile. </p>
<p>Luckily, the kayaker, Adrian Simancas came out unscathed despite being fully enclosed inside the whale's mouth for a few seconds. </p>
<p>Adrian and his father Dell were kayaking in the seas off the town of Punta Arenas, when the whale surfaced and scooped him up in his mouth, with Dell capturing the insane moment on video. </p>
<p>"I felt like I was being lifted, but it was clearly too strong to be a wave," he told <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-14/whale-swallows-and-spits-out-kayaker-in-chile/104935882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a>.</p>
<p>"When I turned, I felt something blue and white passing close to my face, like on one side and above. I didn't understand what was happening."</p>
<p>"I went under and thought I had been swallowed. I thought I was done for, that I was dead. It was like three strange seconds down there," he said. </p>
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<p>"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," Adrian added.</p>
<p>Adrian's father Dell said it was sheer luck that he captured the moment on camera. </p>
<p>"I turned on the camera and heard a wave crash behind me, loudly. When I turned, I didn't see anything," Dell said.</p>
<p>"So that was the only moment of real fear because I didn't see Adrian for about three seconds. Then he suddenly shot out without the packraft, and a second later, the packraft emerged, and then I saw the fin of something."</p>
<p><em>Image credits: YouTube </em></p>
