A huge humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in its mouth in the seas off the coast of southern Chile before spitting him out unscathed in a dramatic incident caught on camera.<\/p>\n
The kayaker, Adrian Simancas, was out with his father last weekend in the seas off the town of Punta Arenas, when the whale surfaced and scooped him up in his mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I was being lifted, but it was clearly too strong to be a wave,\u201d said Simancas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I turned, I felt something blue and white passing close to my face, like on one side and above. I didn\u2019t understand what was happening. Then everything \u2026 I went under and thought I had been swallowed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luckily, the whale quickly spat out Simancas unharmed. His father, in another kayak, caught the whole thing on camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cI turned on the camera and heard a wave crash behind me, loudly. When I turned, I didn\u2019t see anything,\u201d said his father, Dell Simancas.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that was the only moment of real fear because I didn\u2019t see Adrian for about three seconds. Then he suddenly shot out without the packraft, and a second later, the packraft emerged, and then I saw the fin of something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian Simancas was sure he was going to die during the ordeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I was done for, that I was dead. It was like three strange seconds down there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n