A man kayaking off the waters of Chilean Patagonia was swallowed by a humpback whale, only to be spit out again.
A clip of the incident shows Adrian Simancas kayaking in the Strait of Magellan over the weekend when the whale magically popped up to gulp him down. Simancas disappeared almost as quickly as he reappeared, per TMZ.
In the video, he explained that he thought he had died.
“I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me,” Simancas said in the video. “I felt that maybe it was a killer whale. We had been talking about orcas shortly before, so I had that in my head. But when I got out, I understood it was probably out of curiosity that the whale approached me or maybe to communicate something.”
When he returned to the surface, he swam over to his father's kayak.
“At first when I thought I died, it was like, of course, a lot of terror,” Simancas said with a laugh. “Because I thought no, no, there was nothing I could do. And when I got out and started to float, I was really afraid that something would happen to my dad too, that we wouldn’t have reached the shore in time and I would get hypothermia.”
He and his dad made it out of the water safely.