Santiago, Feb 14, 2025 (AFP) - 'Thought he'd swallowed me!': whale gulps kayaker in Chile, spits him out

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2025-02-14
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in southern Chile, before spitting him out unharmed, an amazing escape that was all captured on video. Adrian Simancas was paddling off the Patagonian city of Punta Arenas on Saturday when the giant baleen surged out of the water swallowing him and his yellow kayak whole. Five seconds later a stunned Simancas bobbed to the surface, as the whale's dorsal again emerged above the surface of the frigid g......
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