Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan when a humpback whale surfaced, engulfing Adrián and his yellow kayak for a few seconds before letting him go.
He described the “terror” of those few seconds and explained that his real fear set in only after resurfacing, fearing that the huge animal would hurt his father or that he would perish in the frigid waters.
“When I came up and started floating, I was scared that something might happen to my father too, that we wouldn’t reach the shore in time, or that I would get hypothermia,” Adrián said.
‘I thought I was dead,’ said the kayaker, who was let go by humpback off the Chilean coast after a few seconds.
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off the Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed in an incident caught on camera.
