In a dramatic incident filmed by onlookers, a massive humpback whale briefly scooped up a kayaker in its mouth in the waters off southern Chile before spitting him out unharmed.
Last weekend, the kayaker Adrian Simancas was on the water with his father near Punta Arenas when a whale surfaced and scooped him up in its mouth
“I felt like I was being lifted, but it was clearly too strong to be a wave,” said Simancas.
“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. Then everything… I went under and thought I had been swallowed.”
Fortunately, the whale quickly ejected Simancas without injury. His father, who was in a different kayak, recorded the entire incident on camera.
“As I switched the camera on, I heard a loud wave crash behind me. “As I turned, I saw nothing,” stated his father, Dell Simancas.
“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.”
Then he suddenly shot out without the packraft, and a moment later, the packraft surfaced, revealing the fin of something.
During the ordeal, Adrian Simancas was convinced he was going to die.
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“I thought I was done for, that I was dead. It was like three strange seconds down there,” he said.
