Kayaker, Who Survived Being Swallowed by a Whale as His Dad Recorded, Describes His Pinocchio-Like Escape
Adrián Simancas , a 24-year-old kayaker in Chile, detailed what it was like to be in the mouth of a humpback whale as his father captured the jarring encounter on video on Feb. 8.
Rafter Is Briefly ‘Swallowed’ by Whale in Chile, as His Father Films
Paddling in the Strait of Magellan, Adrián Simancas was caught in a humpback’s lunge. “I realized that I was in something’s mouth and I had been eaten,” he said.
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"Everything just went like, everything went slow motion and I watched it just swim in front of me and then it started to swim away and then I called it back to me by grunting," he said.
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Man almost swallowed by whale is a lot chiller about it than Jonah was
A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth in an incident straight out of the biblical book of Jonah.