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Venezualan man briefly swallowed by humpback whale
'I felt a slimy texture brush my face': Man describes being swallowed by whale
BBC article & short video here.
"...The Venezuelan kayaker had been paddling through the Strait of Magellan, off Chile's Patagonian coast, with his father when he felt something "hit me from behind, closing in on me and sinking me".
His father, Dall, was able to capture the short-lived ordeal on video just metres away...
""I felt a slimy texture brush my face," he recalled, adding that all he could see was dark blue and white...
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Both the kayaker and the whale have signed multi-million dollar contracts to repeat their performance 3 times a day at Sea World Abu Dhabi.
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C,mon now... he got lipped and spit.
I'd love to know what Humpty was thinking while he went after a mouthful of plastic.
Can whales swallow humans? Viral kayaker video explained : NPR
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True- he wasn't quite a modern-day Jonas. And the BBC article itself explains that the whale's throat is far too small to swallow a human: Humpback whales have narrow throats "about the size of a household pipe" designed for swallowing small fish and shrimp, Brazilian conservationist Roched Jacobson Seba told the BBC.
"They physically cannot swallow large objects like kayaks, tires, or even big fish like tuna," he said.
"Ultimately, the whale spit out the kayak because it was physically impossible to swallow."
The humpback whale likely engulfed Adrián by accident, Mr Seba suggested.
"The whale was likely feeding on a school of fish when it unintentionally scooped up the kayak along with its meal.
The whale's reaction was not recorded but it was probably the cetacean equivalent of:
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I hate it when that happens!
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Yeah, gross. From the whale's perspective, probably like us finding an artificial eyeball in our pasta dinner... 
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Just a relaxing day out in the kayak, A day to remember!
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I guess humans will take lip from a whale.
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The same thing happened to Fred and Barney when they were fishing.
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Humpback whales have very large mouths, maybe ten feet across. But their throats are no bigger than a human fist. They pick up huge volumes of water and krill, the water passes out through their teeth (baleen?), and they swallow the tiny krill. This whale was probably in the very act of a large intake of krill and water and never saw the kayak. Obviously, it couldn't swallow the man or the kayak, so they were ejected.
Nothing really exceptional there when you think about it from an anatomical perspective.
Neither the whale nor the man had a pleasant moment there! 
I think every news channel on the globe carried this story due to Papa's video! 
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I believe if that happened to me, a change of my bathing suit would be required!
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Says the whale to another whale "Betcha can't eat just one"
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Never get out of the boat...unless..
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We all got buddies like, "Oh yeah this is so bad, you gotta try it!" and I usually will.
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I'm waiting for the AI enhanced version showing a second whale doing the Heimlich Maneuver.
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I guess the kayaker could have been crushed by the whale's jaws, so all in all he's pretty lucky.
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True. We can sit here comfortably Monday-morning-quarterbacking this but it must have been pretty scary at the time, when, unlike on a movie shoot, it's not carefully rehearsed and everyone knows what's going on
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Far and away "the biggest fish" story.
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Oh, I know him. His names Jonah.
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It is now. You can bet he will be called that for the rest of his life.
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But not by the whale. The whale calls him Chum.
The local authorities have charged the kayaker with harassing wildlife. They issued him a cetacean.
The kayaker has appealed the charge. He claims the event was merely a fluke.
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There was a saying, long ago, about the color of wet suits, for SCUBA divers.
Never wear Yum Yum Yellow.
Guess I need to get some paint.
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But not by the whale. The whale calls him Chum.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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But not by the whale. The whale calls him Chum.
The local authorities have charged the kayaker with harassing wildlife. They issued him a cetacean.
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Very, very good!
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Two possibilities
Prior to ingesting the kayaker, the whale says to his buddy,”Here, hold my beer.”
or
This was a very sophisticated attempt by a Venezuelan illegal to gain entry into the US by using a whale as cover.
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"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Maybe he figured he could become an American cetacean if he kayaked there.
The whale's reaction was obviously a gag reflex when its PTOOEY!-tary gland was triggered.
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His father needs to use different bait when he is trolling,maybe one of his smaller children?
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