Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell Simancas, in Bahía El Águila last Saturday near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan, off Chilean Patagonia.
A humpback whale surfaced near Adrián and swallowed him and his kayak for a few seconds before spitting him out, unharmed.
“I thought I was dead,” Adrián told the Associated Press. “I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me.”
Here’s the astonishing video:
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