Kayaks survive being swallowed by whale, dad catches it on camera

A kayak speaks out after he briefly found himself inside the mouth of a whale.

Adrián Simancas was with his father, Dell, in the Magellan Strait, a tourist attraction in Chilean Patagonia, on Saturday, February 8, when he suddenly found himself inside the mouth whale, according to Associated Press.

Recordings of the meeting caught by Dell showed that the kayaker was quickly scooped into the mouth of the massive animal and disappeared for a few seconds before reappearing a few meters away.

When he talked to AP, Adrián said he feared for his life while he was inside the whale.

“I thought I was dead,” he explained in Spanish. “I thought it had eaten me that it had swallowed me.”

“When I turned around, I felt on my face like a slimy structure; I saw colors like dark blue, white, something approaching from behind the closed … and sank me, ”he told Cnn In a separate interview. “At that moment, I thought there was nothing I could do.”

Originally, Adrián was worried that he had run into a murder whale. “We had talked about orcas shortly before, so I had it in my head,” he confessed to AP.

But fortunately, he was able to escape alive and undamaged when the whale released him.

When Adrián appeared, however, his focus changed. “I was afraid that something could also happen to my dad that we would not reach the coast in time or that I would get hypothermia,” he remembered.

Eventually Adrian’s father was able to reach his son and help him to safety.

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Adrián has since had time to reflect on the meeting with the whale. “It was probably of curiosity that the whale approached me,” he explained, “or maybe to communicate or something.”

The humpback whale is an endangered species that lives “in all oceans around the world”, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fishing.

They typically live on shrimp -like crustaceans (krill) and small fish “and can be up to 60 feet in length and 40 tonnes in weight.