A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in Chile’s Strait of Magellan, adding to the growing number of whale-human encounters in the region’s waters. The incident happened last Saturday when Adrian Simancas’s morning kayak trip turned into a close encounter with one of the ocean’s largest mammals. “I thought I was dead,” Simancas told The Associated Press. “I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me.” His father Dell, recording from a nearby kayak, captured the entire event – from the whale’s massive mouth emerging beneath the yellow kayak to Simancas’s quick release moments later. These gentle giants … Continue reading Kayaker Swallowed by Humpback Whale in Chile’s Strait of Magellan