'I thought I was dead': Kayaker gets swallowed by humpback whale in dramatic moment caught on camera

A humpback whale swallowed a antheral connected a kayak disconnected the coast of Chile past week, earlier helium was rapidly capable to get retired of the leviathan’s rima unharmed.

Video shows the death-defying and terrifying infinitesimal from past Saturday, erstwhile Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, successful Bahía El Águila adjacent the San Isidro Lighthouse successful the Strait of Magellan, disconnected Chilean Patagonia.

As Simancas was paddling successful what appeared to beryllium an inflatable kayak, a humpback whale rolled connected the aboveground with its rima open, swallowing the kayaker.

Moments later, the process broke the aboveground and the whale dove to deeper depth. Simancas and his yellowish kayak past resurfaced aft being freed from the clutches of the whale’s jaws.

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The Associated Press reported that Dell captured the infinitesimal connected video and encouraged his lad to enactment calm.

"Stay calm, enactment calm," the begetter was heard saying successful Spanish aft his lad was released from the whale.

"I thought I was dead," Adrián told the AP. "I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me."

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He described the fewer seconds of "terror" to the ligament service, explaining that his existent fearfulness acceptable successful aft resurfacing, fearing that the whale would wounded his begetter oregon that helium would dice successful the acold waters.

"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.

Adrián yet reached his father’s kayak, and some returned to enactment without injuries.

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The Strait of Magellan, which is located astir 1,600 miles southbound of Santiago, Chile, is simply a major tourer attraction successful Chilean Patagonia, and is known for adventurous activities.

The frigid waters successful the country airs a situation for those who effort to transverse the strait.

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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.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.