Video catches the moment kayaker swallowed by humpback whale in Chilean waters

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This was a whale of a story.

Astonishing footage caught the moment a kayak was swallowed all by a humpback whale out of Chilean Patagonia for a few seconds – before miraculously spewing out again.

Adrian Simancas was a kayak in the Magellan Strait in Bahía El Águila last Saturday when the beast came out of the water and easily devoured the young man and his yellow kayak, according to video, which was caught by his father, Dell, who rose afterwards.

In short, the kayaker was by the whale. Dell Simancas via AP

“I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me,” he told Associated Press.

“Yes, at first I thought I was dead,” Adrian added. “Of course it was a lot of terror because I thought no, no, there was nothing I can do.”

Adrián Simancas remembered the scary experience. AP

After he was freed from the whale’s mouth, his father can be heard telling his son to remain calm. But a new fear quickly emerged.

“When I got up and started flowing, I was afraid that something could happen to my dad that we would not reach the coast in time or that I would have hypothermia,” Adrian said.

He was seen on video swimming in the freedy water over to his father’s kayak and the two were able to safely get ashore.

The whale quickly spit out the young man. Dell Simancas via AP
The kayaker said he thought he was dead meat. Dell Simancas via AP

Adrian said he thought a murder whale could have swallowed him, but when he was released, he thought “it was probably of curiosity that the whale had approached me or maybe to communicate something.”

The Magellan Strait, located 1,600 miles south of Chile’s capital, Santiago, draws tribulations of tourists ready for adventure.

Whale attacks on humans are extremely uncommon, although whales colliding with cargo ships are spiking in recent years.