WORLD NEWS: WHALE SWALLOWS KAYAKER IN CHILE, SPITS HIM OUT UNHARMED

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In southern Chile, a humpback whale made an incredible escape that was caught on camera when it briefly swallowed a kayaker before spitting him out unscathed.

On Saturday, Adrian Simancas and his yellow kayak were completely engulfed by the enormous whale that rushed out of the sea while he was paddling off the Patagonian city of Punta Arenas.

After five seconds, the whale’s dorsal surfaced above the icy grey water once more, and a startled Simancas floated to the top.

“I thought he’d swallowed me!” Simancas exclaimed.

The entire remarkable episode was caught on camera and quickly went viral after being posted on social media by his father, Dell Simancas, who can be heard shouting “Relax! Relax!” to his understandably unrelaxed son.

“Grab it, grab it” the father adds, instructing his son to keep a hold of the kayak to stay afloat while the whale continued to swim behind him,

“Relax, relax, I’m coming,” the father says. “Let’s go to shore.”

The 24-year-old son told Chile’s TVN channel he saw something “blue and white passing close to my face, and it was like on one side and above me.

“I didn’t understand what was happening and then I sank. I thought it had eaten me.”

His father said he turned around and “didn’t see anything, I didn’t see Adrian.