A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident was caught on video.
  • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    Whale was like “if not food, why food shaped?” 😂

    Seriously though, that must have been terrifying…

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I wonder about stories like these. Whales are easily intelligent enough to play. Maybe he was just fucking with the guy? He certainly didn’t see the kayak and rider as food.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      It all happened so fast he probably wasn’t scared, thought a wave temporarily swamped him. If you’re kayaking in water like that, you got some balls. Later, however.

  • xapr [he/him]English
    17·
    2 months ago

    Kayaker identified as “Person Swallowed by Whale” in interview. What a legend.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Gives me shivers just thinking about it.

    And that’s just the “kayaking in the Strait of Magellan” part, let alone getting eaten by a whale!