Feb. 14 (UPI) — A 24-year-old kayaker in Chile was briefly swallowed, and subsequently regurgitated, by a humpback whale in an uncommon encounter his father caught on digital camera.
Adrián Simancas Jaimes, a pc technician initially from Venezuela, was kayaking along with his father in Punta Arenas, Chile, when he felt an impression on his again that knocked him out of his inflatable kayak.
His father, Meydell, captured video as his son briefly vanished into the mouth of a humpback whale.
Jaimes stated he wasn’t certain of what was occurring till the whale spit him again out into the water.
“At first, I believed it had swallowed me entire, though I did not actually know what it was, after which, after I acquired again to the floor, I noticed it was a whale,” Jaimes advised El Pais. “I additionally knew that there wasn’t that a lot hazard, until it began leaping or knocked my dad off his boat, as a result of then it might be very troublesome for us to get again to shore.”
Jaimes, who was not injured, was in a position to reunite along with his dad and return to shore. He stated the incident reminded him of a traditional story.
“Once I was inside it, I remembered Pinocchio, who was additionally swallowed by one,” he stated.
Humpback whales can develop to as much as 48 tons, however they usually pose no hazard to people. They’ve slim throats which stop them from utterly swallowing people and similar-sized animals.
California kayakers Julie McSorley and Liz Cottriel had an identical expertise in 2020, after they ended up briefly contained in the mouth of a breaching humpback whale. Their extra-close encounter was additionally caught on digital camera — from contained in the mouth of the leviathan.
