A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia - and it's all captured on camera

A humpback whale concisely swallowed a kayaker disconnected Chilean Patagonia earlier rapidly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught connected camera, rapidly went viral arsenic 1 of the astir singular footage successful Chile successful caller years.

Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, successful Bahía El Águila adjacent the San Isidro Lighthouse successful the Strait of Magellan erstwhile a humpback whale surfaced, engulfing Adrián and his yellowish kayak for a fewer seconds earlier letting him go.

Dell, conscionable meters away, captured the infinitesimal connected video portion encouraging his lad to enactment calm.

"Stay calm, enactment calm," helium tin beryllium heard saying aft his lad was released from the whale's mouth.

"I thought I was dead," Adrián told The Associated Press. "I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me."

He described the "terror" of those fewer seconds and explained that his existent fearfulness acceptable successful lone aft resurfacing, fearing that the immense carnal would wounded his begetter oregon that helium would perish successful the frigid waters.

Despite the terrifying experience, Dell remained focused, filming and reassuring his lad portion grappling with his ain worry.

"When I came up and started floating, I was frightened that thing mightiness hap to my begetter too, that we wouldn't scope the enactment successful time, oregon that I would get hypothermia," Adrián said.

After a fewer seconds successful the water, Adrián managed to scope his father's kayak and was rapidly assisted. Despite the scare, some returned to enactment uninjured.

Located astir 1,600 miles (3,000 kilometers) southbound of Santiago, Chile's capital, the Strait of Magellan is simply a large tourer attraction successful the Chilean Patagonia, known for escapade activities.

Its frigid waters airs a situation for sailors, swimmers and explorers who effort to transverse it successful antithetic ways.

Although it's summertime successful the Southern Hemisphere, temperatures successful the portion stay cool, with minimums dropping to 39 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) and highs seldom exceeding 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius.)

While whale attacks connected humans are highly uncommon successful Chilean waters, whale deaths from collisions with cargo ships person accrued successful caller years, and strandings person go a recurring contented successful the past decade.