A 24-year-old man was kayaking with his father in Bahia El Aguila, Chile, when a humpback backs hit his yellow boat before spit him in a wonderful way. A frightening video with the gigantic mammal that temporarily swallowed Adrian Simancas before he releases him unharmed on social media.
The incident took place on Saturday near the San Isidro row tower in the Strait of Magellan in the southernmost Patagonia region in Chile.
The video, recorded by his father, Dell, from another kayak, let Mr Dell confuse the approaching whale for 'beautiful waves'. He is later seen to calm his son after the whale released him within a few seconds. He can be heard, “Stay calm, stay calm.”
Adrian Simancas, 24, was briefly swallowed by a humpback whales while kayaking with his father, Dell, from Punta Arenas, Chile. The whale came out of the water and flooded Adrian and his kayak. He was then spit again in the sea
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Speaking of the incident against CNN, he described how he felt a slimy texture on his face when he saw himself turning around and saw dark blue and white colors approaching before he was pulled under water. At that moment he believed that he could not do anything and feared that he would die, without knowing what had happened.
“I thought it had already eaten me and had swallowed me,” he said. However, he soon felt that his life pulls him up again, and within a few seconds he popped up and started to understand the situation.
Simancas remembered that when he popped up and started to float, he was worried that something could happen to his father, that they would not reach the coast on time, or that he could develop hypothermia. Both the father and the son, however, succeeded in going to the coast safely after the incident.
When asked if they are kayaking again, both father and son responded without hesitation: “Of course.”
A similar incident took place in November 2020 when a humpback whales took almost two kayakers from a beach in California. The kayakers observed the whales that fed with silverfish when they suddenly appeared under their kayak, capsized and swallowed them briefly before they escaped unharmed.
