Humpback whale swallows and then spits out kayaker off Chile coast

A huge humpback whale has swallowed and then spat out a kayaker in the seas off the coast of southern Chile.

The dramatic incident lasted just a few brief seconds and was all caught on camera.

Luckily, the kayaker, Adrian Simancas came out unscathed despite being fully enclosed inside the whale's mouth.

Mr 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.

"I felt like I was being lifted, but it was clearly too strong to be a wave," he said.

"When I turned, I felt something blue and white passing close to my face, like on one side and above. I didn't understand what was happening.

In another kayak nearby, his father caught the whole thing on camera.

"I turned on the camera and heard a wave crash behind me, loudly. When I turned, I didn't see anything," said his father, Dell Simancas.

"So that was the only moment of real fear because I didn't 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."

Adrian Simancas was sure he was going to die during the ordeal.

Reuters