In Chile, a man tells how he entered the mouth of a whale before being spit

It was on February 8, in Punta Arenas (Chile). A kayaker, Adrián Simancas, was engulfed by a humpback whalebefore reappearing, spit out by the cetacean, a few moments later. His father, who filmed the scene, tried to help him. The animal then moved away.

If the young man was not injured, he was afraid of his life. “I thought that the whale had eaten and swallowed me. When it spit me, I started floating. This is where I was really afraid that something happened to my father“, confess Adrián Simancas.

In Patagonia, the water temperature rarely exceeds 10 degrees. The two men are still in shock. “At the start, I saw them neither him nor the kayak. I did not understand and I was afraid”, tells Dell Simancas, the father. The Magellan Strait is renowned for its humpback whales. Incidents with these peaceful animals are extremely rare, and often attributed to their curiosity.

In reality, man could not have been “eaten” by cetacean. “If the immense mouth of a humpback whale, which can measure approximately 3 m Long, can easily contain a human being, it is scientifically impossible that a whale really swallows it “specifies a specialist in an article of National Geographic dating from November 2024. “The throat of a humpback whale is roughly the size of a human fist and can only widen about 38 cm to receive a more substantial meal “adds the magazine.

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