The humpback whale temporarily swallowed the kayaker from Patagonia in Chile before releasing him unharmed. The incident in which he was caught up in camera quickly became a word of mouth.
Last Saturday, Adrian Simancus was kayaking with Dell, Bahia Elgira’s father near San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan, as the humpback whales surfaced and involved Adrian and a yellow kayak for a few seconds.
Just a few metres away, Del captured the moment in the video, encouraging his son to stay calm.
“Stay calm, stay calm,” he can hear saying and hearing after his son is released from the whale’s mouth.
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“I thought I was dead,” Adrian told the Associated Press. “I thought it ate me, it swallowed me.”
He explains those “fears” of seconds, and his real fear begins after resurfacement, fearing that a giant animal will hurt his father or that he will die in the frigid sea, and that he will It was explained that it was set.
Despite the horrifying experience, Del filmed his son and remained reassuring while working on his worries.
“When I stood up and floated, I was afraid something might happen to my dad, that we wouldn’t get to the shore in time, or that I would get hypothermia,” Adrian said. I said that.
After a few seconds underwater, Adrian is able to reach her father’s kayak, and is quickly saved. Despite their fear, they both returned to uninjured shores.
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Located about 1,600 miles south of the Chilean capital, Santiago, the Strait of Magellan is a major tourist attraction in Chile’s Patagonia, known for its adventure activities.
That frigid sea poses a challenge for seafarers, swimmers and explorers looking to overcome it in a variety of ways.
Although summer in the Southern Hemisphere is summer, temperatures in this region are cool, dropping to 39 degrees Fahrenheit and rarely exceeding 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
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In the Chilean seas, whales attack on humans are extremely rare. Whale death in collision with a cargo ship It has been increasing in recent years, and stuckness has become a repeat problem over the past decade.
Last year, an incredible video was filmed the moment a whale capsized a boat off the coast of New Hampshire and flew two men into the sea. CBS Boston It has been reported. Two teenagers nearby, one who recorded the video, came to an immediate rescue.
In 2020, two women were knocked out of a kayak in a humpback whale off the coast of Avila Beach, California. Julie McSorley and Liz Kotoriel were not swallowed by the whales, but were temporarily in their mouths.
“We were wearing life jackets, so as soon as the whales came out of their mouths, we leapt to the surface,” Maxsonley told Slate in 2023.
