I’m not sure why, but this story has a familiar ring to it. Off the coast of Chile, Adrián Simancas was kayaking in the cold Pacific waters when he was approached by one of the sea’s great creatures – a humpback whale. What happened next, well, it’s a whale of a story.
A humpback whale swallowed a man on a kayak off the coast of Chile last week, before he was quickly able to get out of the leviathan’s mouth unharmed.
Video shows the death-defying and terrifying moment from last Saturday, when Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan, off Chilean Patagonia.
As Simancas was paddling in what appeared to be an inflatable kayak, a humpback whale rolled on the surface with its mouth open, swallowing the kayaker.
Moments later, the tail broke the surface and the whale dove…
