In an amazing moment trapped in the camera, a humpback whale briefly picked up a kayakist in his mouth before quickly spitting man again.
Adrián Simancas was in kayak with his father, Dell Simancas, last Saturday in Chilean Patagonia when the whale emerged, catching the young man and his boat in his mouth for a few seconds before liberating him.
“I thought I was dead,” Adrián told Associated Press, saying that he initially thought he was being attacked by a orca. “YO I thought I had eatenI had swallowed. “
His father, who captured the entire incident in the camera, can be heard training his 24 -year -old son after the massive animal released him.
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“Keep calm, keep calm,” said your father from behind the lens.
The heartbreaking encounter occurred in Bay El Águila, near the San Isidro lighthouse in the Magellan Strait.
And while Adrián said he felt “terror” during the first seconds while he was in the whale's mouth, the real fear was established after being released. He told AP that he was worried that he could die in frozen waters or that the animal turned to his father below.
“When I arrived and began to float, I was afraid that Something could happen to my fatherAlso, we would not reach the shore on time, or that would get hypothermia, ”he said.
He could quickly reach his father's kayak and climb on board before the two soak back to the shore, shaken but without injuries.
While whale attacks against humans are extremely rare in Chilean waters, whales of whales due to collisions with cargo ships have increased in recent years, and the extremes have become a recurring problem in the last decade.
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