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Humpback whale briefly traps young kayaker in its mouth in Chile
- Almondsetat 2y agoBefore you open the article and wait though an interminable video ad, no, the footage is not from the point of view of the kayaker getting swallowed.
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- cadamsdotcom 2y agoDid an Instagram search for “humpback swallows kayak”. Seems this result has the footage. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGB_UVlz4la https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGB_UVlz4la
- latexr 2y agoThe footage is in the article.
- Etheryte 2y agoHow come every time there's a new fear unlocked, it's adjacent to the sea. Drowning, rogue waves, being eaten by a whale, none of it is a good time.
- latexr 2y agoThere is still much about the ocean we do not know. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/deep-ocean-exploration.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceano...
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoThats a very egoistical point of view - every ex-passenger of the titanic was for a moment part of a beautiful ecological bloom on the ocean floor. DeCaprio was the best crab human-carpaccio
- biofox 2y agoHere's a new one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_viruses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_viruses "Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in marine environments. On average there are about ten million of them in one milliliter of seawater." If enough people get seawater up their nose, it's just a matter of time before there's a crossover event :)
- 9dev 2y agoShall we tell him about the Portuguese man o' war‘s 100 feet tentacles, or spontaneous methane clathrate eruptions?
- DyslexicAtheist 2y agoold home remedy if you suffer from a blocked nose/sinuses: "inhale" sea-water through your nose to clear it all up.
- Sharlin 2y agoNasal irrigation/sinus rinsing. There are accessories that make it more comfortable too. I think salt water in particular is just because non-isotonic water inside your nose hurts and irritates the membranes.
- DanielHB 2y agoI thought whale mouths had fibers that only let plankton in leaving no proper big hole. Bad to know I was wrong.
- jacekm 2y agoWhat you describe is the entrance to their esophagus. That's why although the kayaker found himself in whale's mouth, the animal could not swallow him and had to spit him out.
- swores 2y agoTo add to this, what you're both describing is true of Baleen Whales, which are filter feeders (which includes the Humpback Whale that this story is about, as well as Blue Whales and others). But it's not true of all types of whale - Toothed Wales (such as Beaked Whales and Sperm Whales) are apex predators which much larger throats allowing them to eat larger prey. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothed_whale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothed_whale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen_whale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen_whale
- naavis 2y agoSo a proper title for the piece would be "A humpback whale briefly suckles on kayaker".
- DyslexicAtheist 2y agoThe whale must have been aware of the size of things it can swallow? Maybe the whale read Pinocchio and it wasn't just by accident? Maybe the whale was playing? Maybe it was a game about dominance? Maybe it was sexual for the whale?
- pajko 2y agoBaleen whales swallow a high amount of water (and whatever comes with it) and filter outwards, keeping the krill inside.
- metalman 2y agogrew up in a fishing comunity, where to call someone a "jonah" was an ultimate condemnation and thus labeled, such a person could never work on the boats which was fair, as crews lived, and , died together if something wasn't done right, and certain types of mistakes could doom a whole ship , and many fisherman, to this day, never learn to swim, as the north atlantic will kill you faster than even a non swimer can splash around on the surface. I am sure that this video is producing a lot of bemused and pithy comentary on the shore, down home."oh! the lord thunderin, woulds you look at that there you"
- hermitcrab 2y agoI read somewhere that some fishermen didn't learn to swim as they thought it would only prolong the agony. That seems a strange attitude. Surely, the longer you can survive, the more chance you have of being rescued or finding some wreckage to cling to?
- sidewndr46 2y agoIf you fall into the north atlantic with just basic clothing on, you're extremely unlikely to survive unless rescue is made immediately and promptly. It is possible, but your time is very limited. If you have one of those survival suits, your endurance is greatly increased however. I also think they help keep you floating. My understanding is most crews wear them while working on the deck
- hermitcrab 2y agoObviously it depends how far north you are and what time of the year. This guy was quote far North and survived 40 minutes, but it isn't clear what time of the year it happened: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/40-minutes-freezing-north-sea-6174996 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/40-minutes-...
- littlestymaar 2y agoMost people get confused by the two different phenomenon that will kill you when falling in cold water: - the thing people have in mind is hypothermia (or more accurately, if you don't have a life jacket drowning because your body can't stay afloat because hypothermia paralyzes your muscles), but as your link point out, it's a pretty slow process: it will depend on water temperature and body composition (the slimmer the worse) but it will still always take at least 15-20 minutes in the least favorable case. - the second factor, which is much faster to kill, is Cold shock response: basically if you fall into cold water, you're very likely to have incontrollable breathing while underwater, and will drown near instantly. That's why more than half the people falling in cold water will be dead in less than a minute. But if you survived this first phase (very likely if you have a life jacket) then you'll be fine for tens of minutes afterwards. Always wear a life jacket when on a boat even if you're an Olympic swimmer.
- senectus1 2y agowith all the cameras in the world, this one managed to grab a clip in clean non pixelated high def?!?! I call AI shenanigans.. Now, all those UFO clips in low def and terrible pexelation, THOSE are real! /S
- tanbog45 2y agoHe better get the nickname Jonah now
- nurettin 2y agoPeople will definitely use this to affirm their faith.
- ssm008 2y agoTry looking at the video frame by frame. The kayak disappears from one frame to the next while the whale remains mostly stationary.
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- littlestymaar 2y agoIsn't that just the kayak going underwater because the jaw of the whale pushes it downwards?
- the__alchemist 2y agoI just did after reading this comment - that's not what I saw.
- polishdude20 2y agoI'm calling it now. Captain Dissolution will debunk this.
- Oarch 2y agoYeah there's something slightly suspect - I've been fooled too many times and alarm bells are going off with this one.
- saaaaaam 2y ago"Getting eaten by a whale" is a pretty long standing hoax topic it seems. James Bartley being just one example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bartley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bartley
- throwup238 2y agoThe historicity is always suspect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah
- dn3500 2y agoI can't find it now but there is another news report that explains how it's physically impossible for this whale to swallow something that big. At most it could hold a person in its mouth before spitting it out.
- InitialLastName 2y agoI'm not sure that, from the perspective of a non-english-speaking kayaker, I would make a huge distinction between the English words "swallow" and "gargled".
- littlestymaar 2y ago> At most it could hold a person in its mouth before spitting it out Which is what we see in this video so I don't understand why you bring that up here.
- jansan 2y agoI was instantly reminded of "The Mariner's Revenge Song", one of the greatest story telling songs ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw61oITuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw61oITuts
- gcr 2y agoThe guy could be caught in the humpback’s mouth for a few seconds instead of actually being fully swallowed. It’s hard to say with the video. We need you, Captain!
- lupusreal 2y agoI bet the whale thought this was funny.
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- renewedrebecca 2y agoIs his name Jonah?